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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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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Angry Myself Nature Thinking
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
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Chaos Moments Opinion Prejudice Public
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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Depression Government Manager Name People Public Rich War
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
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Greatness Reading Writing Yourself
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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Adult Advertise Captive Rise World
Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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Black Communist Hate Result World
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

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