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" To prevent the theft of 'Ben-Hur's sets, guards were prowling the back lot long after production had been shut down. "

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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. "

" Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at the galaxy's edge... there is all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here. Because there is nothing else. No thing. This is it. And quite enough, all in all. "

" The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes. "

" Why not just eliminate the federal income tax? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's always best to stay out of other people's divorces. And their civil wars. "

" Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made. "

" Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military. "

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

" 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. "

" Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age. "

" Some have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off. "

" In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it. "

" Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil. "

" The individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining. "

" Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others. "

" As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days. "

" The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind. "

" I can understand companionship. "

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

" McCain is significant in the sense that he has no significance at all on any subject. "

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

" 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. "

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

" As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city. "

" One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves. "

" Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. "

" Most of our writers tend to be recorders. "

" I know a lot of the Annapolis breed. "