What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
GORE VIDALAmericans 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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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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I am only at home in the present.
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I can understand companionship.
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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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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Love is not my bag.
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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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TV news is not very instructive.
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A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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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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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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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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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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The media can’t get anything straight.
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