"I'm a born - again atheist."
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"Sex is a continuum. You go through different phases along life's way... and if you don't, you've been sort of cheated."
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"Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange."
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"Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent."
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"The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself."
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"In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it."
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"Presidents have absolutely gone against the will of Congress. Congress hasn't declared a war since December 7, 1941, and yet we've been at war ever since with somebody or other in order to justify the war machine. Now we have alienated almost the entire earth"
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"It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail."
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"I think the Chinese will say the hell with you and pull their money out of the United States. That's the end of our wars."
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"We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself."
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"I assume that the point of American democracy is you can express any point of view you want."
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"We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one orbit to another. On rare occasions there is total collision, but most often the two simply continue without incident, neither losing more than a particle to the other, in passing."
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"Politics is made up of two words: "Poli," which is Greek for "many," and "tics," which are bloodsucking insects."
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"The word 'radical' derives from the Latin word for root. Therefore, if you want to get to the root of anything you must be radical. It is no accident that the word has now been totally demonized."
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"The war against terror is like a war against dandruff. It's a metaphor. It's not about anything."
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"Americans are not only a less homogenous population than we were when we were 3 million ex-colonists, but we're less educated. On top of that, we have constant misinformation and manipulation by media."
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"The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed to force others to become Puritans; in the New World, of course, they could and did."
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"No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers."
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"One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves."
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"In the town of Ravella, where I have a house, when the Supreme Court said that an act of sodomy, as they describe it, could not be committed between a man and his wife, the entire square burst into laughter."
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