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American laws don't work, but at least the laws of physics might work.
Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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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.
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Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the beginning.
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What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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The Gores, I think, are a bit brighter than the Bushes, historically speaking.
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I'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise an army and seize the Capital. This strikes me as true democracy.
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By 1948, the Italians had begun to pull themselves together, demonstrating once more their astonishing ability to cope with disaster which is so perfectly balanced by their absolute inability to deal with success
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What begins with comedy ends with comedy... in my short view of the matter.
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I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic.
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What we are is seldom what we want to be, while what we want to be is either denied us or changes with the seasons.
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You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.
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The worst thing to happen to Lincoln - aside from the unfortunate incident at Ford's theatre - was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.
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Apparently, 'conspiracy stuff' is now shorthand for unspeakable truth.
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In almost every case (where the United States has fought wars) our overwhelming commitment to freedom, democracy and human rights has required us to support those regimes that would deny freedom, democracy and human rights to their own people.
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In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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Liberal comes from the Latin liberalis, which means pertaining to a free man. In politics, to be liberal is to want to extend democracy through change and reform. One can see why that word had to be erased from our political lexicon.
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