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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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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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Assumption Enemy Ourselves Space Target
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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Agreement Father Fellow Himself Raise Secret
Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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Economy Himself President Understand Work
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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Goodness Known Ourselves Society
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Age Believe Exercise Imagination Spirit
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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Difficult Himself Honesty Pretend
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Chaos Moments Opinion Prejudice Public
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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Children Country Myself Support

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