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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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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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Diminish Interesting Life Oneself Story
It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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Change Reality Time Torture Victim
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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Appearance Cold Love Warm Water 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
On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Congress Form Man Weight
Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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Goodness Government Himself Politics President Public relief
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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Agreement Father Fellow Himself Raise Secret
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
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
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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Company Corporation Country Interest People Yourself
There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Identity Myself
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

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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