A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
GORE VIDALOf 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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Gossip is conversation about people.
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I am only at home in the present.
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I can understand companionship.
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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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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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I’m always an optimist!
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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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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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