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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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I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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Appearance Cold Love Warm Water Yourself
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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Company Corporation Country Interest People Yourself
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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Crime Disturb Order Peace Police Responsibility
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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Contemporary Realize Young Yourself
It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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Change Reality Time Torture Victim
There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Identity Myself
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Angry Myself Nature Thinking
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Death Forever Human Race
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President Time
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking

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