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• So much for the crusade against drugs . . . all America is actually doing is consolidating its position as the biggest…
• The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
• A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue,…
• The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.
• Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of…
• Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:
• No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.
• A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
• Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part…
• There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the…
• Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too
• They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of…

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