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Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.

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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Congress Form Man Weight
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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Build Meaning Novel Sex
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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Civilization Country Scale Social Teacher World
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice
I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Different Enemy Oneself Reality
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
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
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

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