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Envy is the central fact of American life.

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To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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Government Need People Philosophy Religion
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
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking 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
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Candidate Democracy Issues Place
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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Criticism Literature Myself Name University
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
Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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Black Communist Hate Result World
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Natural President Rise Suspicion
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

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