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There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.

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He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Active Literature Lose Time Virtue World Writing
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Law Myself Potential Reading Review View
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Age Believe Exercise Imagination Spirit
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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Age Country Government Ideas Mischief Provoke Strike
From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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Colony Mass Rebel War
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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Attack Death Earth Ourselves Thinking
Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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Black Communist Hate Result World
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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Need Reminder Theatre Well Worth

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