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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
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Election Illumination Language Liberal Society Vote
Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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Black Communist Hate Result World
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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Act Finding Force National Police
Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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Enjoyment Life Military Reality Story
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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God Graduation Known Yourself
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice
A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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Friendship Moments Myself Past Surprise

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