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Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.

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Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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Food Human Pattern Population Preserve Race Recognition
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
Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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Age Country Government Ideas Mischief Provoke Strike
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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Book Edition Grown Library Reading
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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Evidence Figure Reading Speech
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
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Material Media Television Top
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
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
Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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Contemporary Realize Young Yourself
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History

Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.

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