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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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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
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
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
It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Best Divorce Finding Ourselves People Stay
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
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
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
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
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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Busy Oneself Sadness Writing
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Myself Nature Pollution Water

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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