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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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Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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Beginning Europe Ourselves Sun
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Death Department Nation State
After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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Diminish Interesting Life Oneself Story
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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Filling Himself Hope Place
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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Class Genius heavy Ourselves Rule System
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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Artist Discover Emotion Important Known World
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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Age Perfection Progression Rule Television
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
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
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax

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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