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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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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide 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
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
The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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Money Talk Tax Time
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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Greatness Loud Race Yourself
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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Essential Experience Literature Natural Work
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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Book Edition Grown Library Reading
Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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Enjoyment Life Military Reality Story
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President Time
It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Best Divorce Finding Ourselves People Stay

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