There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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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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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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I am only at home in the present.
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I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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The United States is a madhouse.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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