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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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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
Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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Difference Himself Religion
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
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
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Law Myself Potential Reading Review View
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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Age Perfection Progression Rule Television
If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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Election Force Yourself
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
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Journalism Reality World
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President Time
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

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