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The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.

Gore Vidal

I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Different Enemy Oneself Reality
I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Law Myself Potential Reading Review View
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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Adult Advertise Captive Rise World
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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Attack Death Earth Ourselves Thinking
Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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Action God Karma Life Right Welfare
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
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Definition Preparation President
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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Build Meaning Novel Sex
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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Crime Disturb Order Peace Police Responsibility
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word

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