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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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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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Believe Comedy Goodness Place Stone Theatre Writing
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
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
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
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
What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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Book Fact Kind Loose Opinion Popular Question Review Treat
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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Bird Man Stand Time
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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Finding Greatness Pleasure Possible
Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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Contemporary Realize Young Yourself
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
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
There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Identity Myself

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