The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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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.
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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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The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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I am only at home in the present.
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Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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