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The coolly calibrated manipulation of the credulous American public, by an administration bent upon stoking paranoid patriotism!

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I'm sure all that you've heard is just the usual gossip, invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate truth.
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It is utterly naive, futile, uninformed—to think that our species is exceptional. So designated to master the beasts of the Earth, as in the Book of Genesis!
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Loving our parents, we bring them into us. They inhabit us. For a long time I believed that I could not bear to live without Mom and Dad—I could not bear to “outlive” them—for to be a daughter without parents did not seem possible to me.
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