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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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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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Depression Government Manager Name People Public Rich War
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
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Best Divorce Finding Ourselves People Stay
As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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Children Country Myself Support
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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Elimination Management Media Object Opinion World
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
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
Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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Action God Karma Life Right Welfare
Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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Choice Democracy Feeling Perspective Politics
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand

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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