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• I could be a country-western singer. I just got done writing my latest song
  If I had met you earlier, I would have gotten rid of you long before now....
• All I've got left on the list of desirable vocations is heiress to the throne of any country in Western Europe and Laurie Anderson.
  Be practical", was the choral reply from the dinner table....
• The entire work force of the Communist countries is sunjected to periodic purges (called verifications in Newspeak).
  One of the most severe took place in 1957 when Novotny, rattled by the Hungarian Revolution the year before, tried hard to weed out "radishes" (red outside, white inside) from all but insignificant positions....
• I Still Miss You, Baby, But My Aim's Gettin' Better." -- Proposed Country-Western song title
• One of the most frightening things in the Western world, and in this country in particular, is the number of people who believe in things that are scientifically false.
  If someone tells me that the earth is less than 10,000 years old, in my opinion he should see a psychiatrist....
• One thing is that, unlike any other Western democracy that I know of, this country has operated since its beginnings with a basic distrust of government.
  We are constituted not for efficient operation of government, but for minimizing the possibility of abuse of power....
• Quote #286 I was told that the Chinese said that they would would bury me by the Western lake and build a shrine to my memory.
  I have some slight regret that this did not happen, as I might have become a god, which would have been very _chic_ for an atheist....
• I could accept this openness, glasnost, perestroika, or whatever you want to call it if they did these thing
  abolish the one party system; open the Soviet frontier and allow Soviet people to travel freely...