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

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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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Bribe Happiness Myself Quite
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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Childhood Home Life Myself Politician Raise
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice
After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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Diminish Interesting Life Oneself Story
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
Love is not my bag.
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Love One Liner
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
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
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
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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Need Reminder Theatre Well Worth
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown

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