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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.

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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Human Myself People Problem Solution
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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Depression Government Manager Name People Public Rich War
Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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Evidence Figure Reading Speech
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
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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Age Believe Exercise Imagination Spirit
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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Character Creation Impression Myself Settle Writing
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Candidate Democracy Issues Place
You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Greatness Reading Writing Yourself
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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Filling Himself Hope Place
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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Crime Disturb Order Peace Police Responsibility
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset

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