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To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.

Gore Vidal

I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
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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Death Forever Human Race
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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Civilization Country Scale Social Teacher World
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
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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Artist Himself Magic Mystery Public View
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
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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Enjoyment Life Military Reality Story
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Congress Form Man Weight
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing
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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Artist Discover Emotion Important Known World
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Candidate Democracy Issues Place

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