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" I was like everyone else when Obama was elected - optimistic. "

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" To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy. "

" The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die. "

" I hate nobody. "

" It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer. "

" A narcissist is someone better looking than you are. "

" The United States is a madhouse. "

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" To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds. "

" The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in my grandfather's library. "

" 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. "

" 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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" I didn't mean to spend my life writing American history, which should have been taught in the schools, but I saw no alternative but to taking it on myself. I could think of a lot of cheerier things I'd rather be doing than analyzing George Washington and Aaron Burr. But it came to pass, that was my job, so I did it. "

" All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself. "

" As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln. "

" 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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" 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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" 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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