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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Active Literature Lose Time Virtue World Writing
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
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing
It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Best Divorce Finding Ourselves People Stay
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
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
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
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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Food Human Pattern Population Preserve Race Recognition
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
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
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
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Hope Newspaper Oneself People Reading
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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Attack Death Earth Ourselves Thinking

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