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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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" In actual fact, I have always been a conservative cross, borne sadly by liberal friends. "

" We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us. "

" Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Never have children, only grandchildren. "

" It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true. "

" What I like least about myself is my belligerence. "

" 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. "

" I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy. "

" 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. "

" What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke? "

" Every country should have at least one King Farouk. "

" After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes. "

" During the late '50s, I had worked on the script of Ben-Hur in an office next to that of the producer Sam Zimbalist. "

" I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent. "

" 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. "

" It is a paradox of the acquisitive society in which we now live that although private morals are regulated by law, the entrepreneur is allowed considerable freedom to use - and abuse - the public in order to make money. "

" There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem. "

" Love is not my bag. "

" American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics. "

" I can't name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I'm told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don't print them in 'The New York Times.' "

" Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. "

" Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world. "

" All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world. "

" I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water. "

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

" Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillful, he will flatter them into thinking: 'Why, that's us up there, and aren't we - for all our little foibles - pretty nice guys and gals?' "