Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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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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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Corporations must pay tax.
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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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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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Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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I’m always an optimist!
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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