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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.

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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Hope Newspaper Oneself People Reading
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Chaos Moments Opinion Prejudice Public
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 writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Law Myself Potential Reading Review View
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
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
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Choice Journey Oneself Road
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
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
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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Company Corporation Country Interest People Yourself

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