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What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.

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While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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Goodness Known Ourselves Society
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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Age Country Government Ideas Mischief Provoke Strike
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Natural President Rise Suspicion
I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Myself Nature Pollution Water
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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Difficult Himself Honesty Pretend
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
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President Time
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money

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