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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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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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Colony Mass Rebel War
I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Different Enemy Oneself Reality
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
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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Childhood Home Life Myself Politician Raise
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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Criticism Literature Myself Name University
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
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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Adventure Movie Myself Novel Operation Play Sphere Temporary
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Journalism Reality World
It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Best Divorce Finding Ourselves People Stay
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President Time
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
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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Death Department Nation State
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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Busy Oneself Sadness Writing
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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Appearance Cold Love Warm Water Yourself
Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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Baseball Play Slow Sports
There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Identity Myself

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