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The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself. – James Wolcott

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High expectations werent nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then – children werent fawned over from an early age as gifted and groomed for a prizewinning future self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself. – James Wolcott

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As we divest ourselves of once familiar physical objects – digitize and dematerialize – we approach a Star Trek future in which everything can be accessed from the fourth dimension with a few clicks or terse audibles. – James Wolcott

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Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized. – James Wolcott

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As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our societys most vulnerable. – Jim DeMint

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Theres no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. – Will Rogers

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Clintons successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives. – Tony Campolo

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