Little Bush says we are at war, but we are not at war because to be at war Congress has to vote for it. He says we are at war on terror, but that is a metaphor, though I doubt if he knows what that means. It's like having a war on dandruff, it's endless and pointless.
Gore VidalIn fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death
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