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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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From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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Colony Mass Rebel War
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
To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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Food Human Pattern Population Preserve Race Recognition
I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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Adventure Movie Myself Novel Operation Play Sphere Temporary
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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Damage End Greatness Nation Powerful War
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
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Material Media Television Top
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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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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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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