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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My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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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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I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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