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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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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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Assumption Enemy Ourselves Space Target
Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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Believe Comedy Goodness Place Stone Theatre Writing
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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Invention President Suspend War
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
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
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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Damage End Greatness Nation Powerful War
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever

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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