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-- Paul Muldoon

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“The politics of that year [2004] are old now, but the problem remains the same, the real culture clash of American life. It's between the essence of fundamentalism - paternalism, authority, and charity - and the messy imperatives of democracy, "the din of the vox populi" once derided by Abram Vereide. It's the difference between false unity, preached from above, and real solidarity, pledged between brothers and sisters - the kinds who are always bickering.”
“How do you have a democratic empire, how do you have an imperial foreign policy built on a democracy polity. It's like some sort of strange mythical beast that's part lion, part dragon. You know at the bottom is a democracy, and then it's an imperial power around the world.”
“Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.”
“Your happy destiny is unavoidable. You cannot be "saved." There is no hell except not knowing this.”
“Sinatraâ€™s idea of paradise is a place where there are plenty of women and no newspapermen. He doesnâ€™t know it, but heâ€™d be better off if it were the other way around.”
“In her present ignorance, woman's religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.”
“You should figure out who you are and what you need, and then don't apologize for it.”
“But then in April of 1985 the dollar began a sharp decline. The dollar's trade weighted value fell 23 percent in just 12 months and by a total of 37 percent by the beginning of 1988.”

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