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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.

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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Hope Newspaper Oneself People Reading
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
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
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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Assumption Enemy Ourselves Space Target
Love is not my bag.
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Love One Liner
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
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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Contemporary Realize Young Yourself
To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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Food Human Pattern Population Preserve Race Recognition
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
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
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
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