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To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.

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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
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
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 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
Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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Goodness Government Himself Politics President Public relief
What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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Credible Exception Ignorance Possible Society
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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Difficult Himself Honesty Pretend
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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Build Meaning Novel Sex
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True
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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Hope Newspaper Oneself People Reading
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
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice
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

To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.

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