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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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Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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Hope Myself People Reading Vote
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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Adult Advertise Captive Rise World
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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Democracy Party Politics Republic
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
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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Assumption Enemy Ourselves Space Target
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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Food Human Pattern Population Preserve Race Recognition
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Candidate Democracy Issues Place
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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Finding Greatness Pleasure Possible
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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Believe Comedy Goodness Place Stone Theatre Writing

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