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Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.

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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
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Greatness Reading Writing Yourself
Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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Difference Himself Religion
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
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
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
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
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
Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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Hope Myself People Reading Vote
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Choice Journey Oneself Road
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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Adult Advertise Captive Rise World
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

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