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" What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I'm a realist. "

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" To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities. "

" 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. "

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" Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read. "

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" Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda. "

" Walter Lippmann suggests that the United States behaves like a society which thinks it is complete with no more to accomplish; that, for better or worse, we are what we are, and the only danger to our comfort is external. "

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" Baseball is the favorite American sport because it's so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it. "

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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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