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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Chaos Moments Opinion Prejudice Public
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
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
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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Artist Himself Magic Mystery Public View
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
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
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
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
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
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
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

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