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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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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
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
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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Age Country Government Ideas Mischief Provoke Strike
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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Damage End Greatness Nation Powerful War
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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God Graduation Known Yourself
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
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
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Country Finding People State
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People

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