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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

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To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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Invention President Suspend War
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
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
Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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Assumption Enemy Ourselves Space Target
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
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
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Angry Myself Nature Thinking
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
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
What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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Book Fact Kind Loose Opinion Popular Question Review Treat
It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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Change Reality Time Torture Victim
There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Impulse People Person Practice Sexual
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

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