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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
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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Attack Death Earth Ourselves Thinking
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
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
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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Contemporary Realize Young Yourself
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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Elimination Management Media Object Opinion World
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Human Myself People Problem Solution
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
Love is not my bag.
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Love One Liner

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