Gossip is conversation about people.
GORE VIDALApparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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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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I am only at home in the present.
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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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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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