Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
GORE VIDALIn classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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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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Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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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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I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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