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Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.

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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
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
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Death Department Nation State
In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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Act Finding Force National Police
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
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
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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Busy Oneself Sadness Writing
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
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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Assumption Enemy Ourselves Space Target
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal

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