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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

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The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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Civilization Country Scale Social Teacher World
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
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
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
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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Class Genius heavy Ourselves Rule System
Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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Baseball Play Slow Sports
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
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
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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Bird Man Stand Time
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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