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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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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
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
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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Elimination Management Media Object Opinion World
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Death Department Nation State
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’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
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
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
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
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
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
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
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself 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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