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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

Gore Vidal

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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Age Country Government Ideas Mischief Provoke Strike
Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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Agreement Father Fellow Himself Raise Secret
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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Greatness Loud Race Yourself
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Myself Nature Pollution Water
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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Difference Himself Religion
Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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Filling Himself Hope Place
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
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
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
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature

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