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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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Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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Feeling Life Man Yourself
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
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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Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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Hope Myself People Reading Vote
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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Bird Man Stand Time
To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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Contemporary Realize Young Yourself
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight

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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