Corporations must pay tax.
GORE VIDALThe truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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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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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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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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There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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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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Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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I can understand companionship.
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