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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 theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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Need Reminder Theatre Well Worth
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
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
Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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Choice Democracy Feeling Perspective Politics
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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Class Genius heavy Ourselves Rule System
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Different Enemy Oneself Reality
I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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Behave Comparison Mindset Myself Team
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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Damage End Greatness Nation Powerful War
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
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
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing

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