It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
GORE VIDALSome have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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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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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Corporations must pay tax.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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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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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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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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