Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
GORE VIDALThe United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Corporations must pay tax.
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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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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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I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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