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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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TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Hope Newspaper Oneself People Reading
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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Money Talk Tax Time
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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Children Country Myself Support
There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Identity Myself
After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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Diminish Interesting Life Oneself Story
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Chaos Moments Opinion Prejudice Public
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
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Active Literature Lose Time Virtue World Writing
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Business Country Faith Fiction Lost Writing

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