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

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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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Friendship Moments Myself Past Surprise
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
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
The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Race Teacher Writing
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics
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 more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
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
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Definition Preparation President
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember

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