Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
GORE VIDALHaving 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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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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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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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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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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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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