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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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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
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
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
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
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
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
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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Depression Government Manager Name People Public Rich War
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
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

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