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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Politics
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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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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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The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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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.
Gore Vidal in
Government
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Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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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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Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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