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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.

Gore Vidal

There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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Democracy Party Politics Republic
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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Change Reality Time Torture Victim
There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Identity Myself
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Death Forever Human Race
Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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Age Country Government Ideas Mischief Provoke Strike
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics
Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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Evidence Figure Reading Speech
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
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Impulse People Person Practice Sexual
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself

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