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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

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Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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Children Country Myself Support
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
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
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
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
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
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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Civil Finding Liberty Live Police
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
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
I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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Myself Reading Truth
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
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
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence

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