Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
From Gore Vidal
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.
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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.
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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