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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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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
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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Bird Man Stand Time
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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Greatness Loud Race Yourself
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Chaos Moments Opinion Prejudice Public
Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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Action God Karma Life Right Welfare
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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Attack Death Earth Ourselves Thinking
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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Change Reality Time Torture Victim
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
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever

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