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I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.

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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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Elimination Management Media Object Opinion World
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
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
I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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Bribe Happiness Myself Quite
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
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
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
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Race Teacher Writing
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time

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