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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.

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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True
It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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Change Reality Time Torture Victim
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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Behave Comparison Mindset Myself Team
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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Need Reminder Theatre Well Worth
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
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
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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Believe Comedy Goodness Place Stone Theatre Writing
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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Colony Mass Rebel War
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
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

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