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As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True
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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Attack Death Earth Ourselves Thinking
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Active Literature Lose Time Virtue World Writing
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Hope Newspaper Oneself People Reading
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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Book Fact Kind Loose Opinion Popular Question Review Treat
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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Agreement Father Fellow Himself Raise Secret
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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Childhood Home Life Myself Politician Raise
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
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
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal

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