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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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Book Fact Kind Loose Opinion Popular Question Review Treat
In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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Act Finding Force National Police
From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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Colony Mass Rebel War
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
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
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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Artist Himself Magic Mystery Public View
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
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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Death Forever Human Race
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Natural President Rise Suspicion
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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Capital Death Himself Offense Success Time
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Journalism Reality World

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