From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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I can understand companionship.
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I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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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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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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