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"I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically."

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"The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed."

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"We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives."

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"In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility."

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"For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without enough alarms being sounded to be heard and heeded."

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