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Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.

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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Angry Myself Nature Thinking
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
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
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
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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Busy Oneself Sadness Writing
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
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
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
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
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
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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Book Edition Grown Library Reading
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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Goodness Known Ourselves Society
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Impulse People Person Practice Sexual

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