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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.

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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
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
While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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Goodness Known Ourselves Society
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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Assumption Enemy Ourselves Space Target
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
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
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 unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
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
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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Busy Oneself Sadness Writing
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness

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