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As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.

Gore Vidal

Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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Baseball Play Slow Sports
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
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
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
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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Death Forever Human Race
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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Criticism Literature Myself Name University
The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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Civilization Country Scale Social Teacher World
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Human Myself People Problem Solution
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Country Finding People State
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
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

As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.

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