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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.

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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
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
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
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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Bird Man Stand Time
If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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Election Force Yourself
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Candidate Democracy Issues Place
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Human Myself People Problem Solution
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Country Finding People State
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.

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