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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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I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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Act Finding Force National Police
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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Government Need People Philosophy Religion
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
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
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
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
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
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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Finding Greatness Pleasure Possible
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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Essential Experience Literature Natural Work
Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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Difference Himself Religion

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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