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The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.

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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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Damage End Greatness Nation Powerful War
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
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
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Active Literature Lose Time Virtue World Writing
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Human Myself People Problem Solution
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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Government Need People Philosophy Religion
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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Beginning Europe Ourselves Sun
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Chaos Moments Opinion Prejudice Public

The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.

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The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.

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