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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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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The unfed mind devours itself.
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I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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I can understand companionship.
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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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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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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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The United States is a madhouse.
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