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" Corporations must pay tax. "
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" In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are. "
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" After the French Revolution, the world money power shifted from Paris to London. For three generations, the British maintained an old-fashioned colonial empire, as well as a modern empire based on London's primacy in the money markets. "
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" 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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" During the late '50s, I had worked on the script of Ben-Hur in an office next to that of the producer Sam Zimbalist. "
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" What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves. "
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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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" I'm exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water. "
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" What the Kinseyites and I had in common so long ago was the knowledge that homosexual and heterosexual behavior are natural to all mammals, and that what differs from individual to individual is the balance between these two complementary but not necessarily conflicted drives. "
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" Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. "
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" Like most readers, I tend to skip the acknowledgements at the beginnings of books: the 'To-My-Wife-Without-Whose-Invaluable-Assistance' kind of thing. "
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