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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.

Gore Vidal

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
Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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Commitment Democracy Government Independent Party Politics Serious
I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Different Enemy Oneself Reality
It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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Essential Experience Literature Natural Work
Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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Economy Himself President Understand Work
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
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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Enjoyment Life Military Reality Story
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
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth

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