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It is of no consequence to you what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life.

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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist - I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.
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I'd like to see a revival of state legislatures, in which I am a true Jeffersonian.
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Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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I have been saying for the some time now that America has only one party - the property party. It's the party of big corporation, the party of money. It has two right wings one is Democrat and the other is Republican.
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