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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
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Age Believe Exercise Imagination Spirit
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Choice Journey Oneself Road
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
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
What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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Credible Exception Ignorance Possible Society
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
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
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Candidate Democracy Issues Place
I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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Bribe Happiness Myself Quite
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
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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Enjoyment Life Military Reality Story
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics

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