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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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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
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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Appearance Cold Love Warm Water Yourself
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
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Chaos Moments Opinion Prejudice Public
I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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Behave Comparison Mindset Myself Team
Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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Evidence Figure Reading Speech
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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Food Human Pattern Population Preserve Race Recognition
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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Artist Discover Emotion Important Known World
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Candidate Democracy Issues Place

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