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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.

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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
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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Busy Oneself Sadness Writing
The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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Civilization Country Scale Social Teacher World
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
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
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
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
Love is not my bag.
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Love One Liner
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
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
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
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Race Teacher Writing
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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Bird Man Stand Time

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