I hate nobody.
GORE VIDALTo get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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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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Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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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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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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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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We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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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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