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Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.

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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
Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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Company Corporation Country Interest People Yourself
Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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Beginning Europe Ourselves Sun
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Country Finding People State
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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Essential Experience Literature Natural Work
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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Age Perfection Progression Rule Television
Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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Contemporary Realize Young Yourself
In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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Act Finding Force National Police
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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Build Meaning Novel Sex
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
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
As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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Civil Finding Liberty Live Police
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex

Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.

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