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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
Love is not my bag.
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Love One Liner
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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Book Edition Grown Library Reading
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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Action God Karma Life Right Welfare
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Race Teacher Writing
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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Depression Government Manager Name People Public Rich War
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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Choice Democracy Feeling Perspective Politics

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