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Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.

Gore Vidal

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
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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Class Genius heavy Ourselves Rule System
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Angry Myself Nature Thinking
I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Law Myself Potential Reading Review View
Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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Contemporary Realize Young Yourself
Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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Assumption Enemy Ourselves Space Target
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Different Enemy Oneself Reality
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.

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