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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

Gore Vidal

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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Enjoyment Life Military Reality Story
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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Capital Death Himself Offense Success Time
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
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
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’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Identity Myself
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
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
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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Adult Advertise Captive Rise World
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

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