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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
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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Behave Comparison Mindset Myself Team
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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Bribe Happiness Myself Quite
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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Attack Death Earth Ourselves Thinking
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Death Department Nation State
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing

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