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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

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As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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Age Perfection Progression Rule Television
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
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Election Illumination Language Liberal Society Vote
The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Race Teacher Writing
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Law Myself Potential Reading Review View
What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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Credible Exception Ignorance Possible Society
I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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Bribe Happiness Myself Quite
I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Myself Nature Pollution Water
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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Busy Oneself Sadness Writing
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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Myself Reading Truth
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President

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