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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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.Gore Vidal
American writers want to be not good but great and so are neither.
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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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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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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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I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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