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Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.

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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics
As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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Children Country Myself Support
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Material Media Television Top
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
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
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True
Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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Baseball Play Slow Sports
Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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Black Communist Hate Result World
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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Capital Death Himself Offense Success Time
The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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Civilization Country Scale Social Teacher World
While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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Goodness Known Ourselves Society
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
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
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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Election Force Yourself
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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Finding Greatness Pleasure Possible
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Death Forever Human Race
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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Economy Himself President Understand Work
Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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Choice Democracy Feeling Perspective Politics
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.

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