The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
GORE VIDALThat loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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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 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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I hate nobody.
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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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The media can’t get anything straight.
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Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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