Corporations must pay tax.
GORE VIDALThere’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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I can understand companionship.
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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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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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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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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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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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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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The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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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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Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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I hate nobody.
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