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Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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Hope Myself People Reading Vote
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 only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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Government Need People Philosophy Religion
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
To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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Invention President Suspend War
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
The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Race Teacher Writing
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Impulse People Person Practice Sexual
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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I am only at home in the present.

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