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.
GORE VIDALOne is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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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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TV news is not very instructive.
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Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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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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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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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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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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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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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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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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