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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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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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God Graduation Known Yourself
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
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
There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Identity Myself
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
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
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
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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Myself Reading Truth
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Journalism Reality World
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Candidate Democracy Issues Place
To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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Food Human Pattern Population Preserve Race Recognition
The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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Money Talk Tax Time
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

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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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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