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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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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Age Believe Exercise Imagination Spirit
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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Evidence Figure Reading Speech
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
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
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
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
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
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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Agreement Father Fellow Himself Raise Secret
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
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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Democracy Party Politics Republic

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