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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
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
Love is not my bag.
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Love One Liner
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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Age Country Government Ideas Mischief Provoke Strike
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Human Myself People Problem Solution
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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Commitment Democracy Government Independent Party Politics Serious
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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Goodness Known Ourselves Society
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
Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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Agreement Father Fellow Himself Raise Secret
Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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Difference Himself Religion
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight

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