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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

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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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Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country - and we haven't seen them since.

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In August 1961, I visited President Kennedy at Hyannis Port. The Berlin Wall was going up, and he was about to begin a huge military buildup - reluctantly, or so he said, as he puffed on a cigar liberated by a friend from Castro's Cuba.

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: October 3rd, 1925

Died: July 31st, 2012

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