Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
GORE VIDALBoth Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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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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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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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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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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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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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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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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