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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam -- good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.
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Americans tend to play different roles, hoping that somehow they’ll stumble on the right one.
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I'm a born-again atheist.
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Once a country is habituated to liars, it takes generations to get the truth back.
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presidents, when not outright telling lies, feel obliged to shade the truth most of the time. This is called politics; when a president lies successfully, he is called a statesman.
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I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.
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I have never been an eavesdropper, even in childhood. Not from any sense of virtue but because I really do not want to know what people think of me or, to be precise, what they say of me - often a different matter. I can usually imagine the unpleasant judgements, for we are what others needs us to be. That is why our reputations change so often and so drastically, reflecting no particular change in us, merely a change in the mood of those who observe us.
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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.
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