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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.

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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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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.

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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.

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

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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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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.

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Americans are future-minded to the point of obsession. We are impatient at living in the present. Tomorrow is bound to be better... next year, next century, always what might be rather than what is. This trait in us makes for 'progress;' it also makes for a continuing dissatisfaction.

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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: October 3rd, 1925

Died: July 31st, 2012

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