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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.

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To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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Government Need People Philosophy Religion
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
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
What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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Book Fact Kind Loose Opinion Popular Question Review Treat
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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Artist Himself Magic Mystery Public View
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Material Media Television Top
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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Food Human Pattern Population Preserve Race Recognition
What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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Credible Exception Ignorance Possible Society
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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Invention President Suspend War
Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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Agreement Father Fellow Himself Raise Secret

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