All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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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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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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TV news is not very instructive.
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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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Corporations must pay tax.
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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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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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We’re not a democracy.
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