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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.

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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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Food Human Pattern Population Preserve Race Recognition
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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Difficult Himself Honesty Pretend
Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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Choice Democracy Feeling Perspective Politics
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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Childhood Home Life Myself Politician Raise
There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Identity Myself
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
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
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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Artist Discover Emotion Important Known World
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Death Department Nation State
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Congress Form Man Weight
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President

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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