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Book: State of the Union: The Nation's Essays 1958-2008
Quotes of Book: State of the Union: The
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  1. Gore Vidal _ State of the Union: The

    Since the reading skills of the American people are the lowest in the First World, the general public is always easy prey to manipulation by television.
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  2. Gore Vidal _ State of the Union: The

    The American passion for categorizing has now managed to create two non-existent categories-gay and straight.
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  3. Gore Vidal _ State of the Union: The

    After politics, journalism has always been the preferred career of the ambitious but lazy second-rater.
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  4. Gore Vidal _ State of the Union: The

    the Russian governors are terrified of ideas. If only they knew what our governors know-that in a massive egalitarian society no idea which runs counter to the prevailing superstitions can successfully penetrate the official carapace.
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  5. Gore Vidal _ State of the Union: The

    After acquiring Texas, Polk deliberately started a war with Mexico because, as he later told the historian George Bancroft, we had to acquire California. Thanks to Polk, we did.
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  6. Gore Vidal _ State of the Union: The

    As long as any group within the society deliberately maintains its identity it is, or should be, a fair target for satire-both for its own good and for the society's.
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