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As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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Civil Finding Liberty Live Police
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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Need Reminder Theatre Well Worth
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
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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Credible Exception Ignorance Possible Society
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Death Forever Human Race
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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Enjoyment Life Military Reality Story
Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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Choice Democracy Feeling Perspective Politics
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 is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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Essential Experience Literature Natural Work
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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Hope Myself People Reading Vote
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Different Enemy Oneself Reality
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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Filling Himself Hope Place

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