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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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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Natural President Rise Suspicion
Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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Baseball Play Slow Sports
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
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Age Believe Exercise Imagination Spirit
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Congress Form Man Weight
After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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Diminish Interesting Life Oneself Story
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Business Country Faith Fiction Lost Writing
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
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
To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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Invention President Suspend War
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
Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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Action God Karma Life Right Welfare
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
I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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Childhood Home Life Myself Politician Raise
I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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Myself Reading Truth
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
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Hope Newspaper Oneself People Reading
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
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
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
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President Time
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny

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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