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Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.

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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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Action God Karma Life Right Welfare
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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Finding Greatness Pleasure Possible
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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Class Genius heavy Ourselves Rule System
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
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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Hope Myself People Reading Vote
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
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
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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Elimination Management Media Object Opinion World

Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.

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