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"There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise."

"A good deed never goes unpunished."

"In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.”

"Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.”

"A narcissist is someone better looking than you are."

"Never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television."

"Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink."

"The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.”

"The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death”

"Ronald Reagan is a triumph of the embalmer's art."

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

 

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