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

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I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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Bribe Happiness Myself Quite
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
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Country Finding People State
Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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Beginning Europe Ourselves Sun
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
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
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
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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Greatness Loud Race Yourself
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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Money Talk Tax Time

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