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If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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Election Force Yourself
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
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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Age Perfection Progression Rule Television
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Country Finding People State
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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Goodness Known Ourselves Society
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
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
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
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Chaos Moments Opinion Prejudice Public
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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Democracy Party Politics Republic

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