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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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Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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Enjoyment Life Military Reality Story
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
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
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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Depression Government Manager Name People Public Rich War
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True
It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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Essential Experience Literature Natural Work
As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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Children Country Myself Support
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
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Active Literature Lose Time Virtue World Writing

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