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You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Greatness Reading Writing Yourself
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
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Election Illumination Language Liberal Society Vote
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Chaos Moments Opinion Prejudice Public
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
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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Money Talk Tax Time
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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Appearance Cold Love Warm Water Yourself
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
Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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Company Corporation Country Interest People Yourself

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