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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Material Media Television Top
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
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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God Graduation Known Yourself
To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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Government Need People Philosophy Religion
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Greatness Reading Writing Yourself
I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Myself Nature Pollution Water
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
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
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
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
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
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

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