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Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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Evidence Figure Reading Speech
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
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
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Journalism Reality World
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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Believe Comedy Goodness Place Stone Theatre Writing
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
To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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Government Need People Philosophy Religion
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Human Myself People Problem Solution
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
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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Assumption Enemy Ourselves Space Target
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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Baseball Play Slow Sports
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President

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