I’m always an optimist!
GORE VIDALHistory is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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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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Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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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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Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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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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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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