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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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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Definition Preparation President
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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Economy Himself President Understand Work
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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Bird Man Stand Time
It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Best Divorce Finding Ourselves People Stay
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
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Election Illumination Language Liberal Society Vote
I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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Childhood Home Life Myself Politician Raise
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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Friendship Moments Myself Past Surprise

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