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Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.

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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Material Media Television Top
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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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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Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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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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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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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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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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Book Edition Grown Library Reading
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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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Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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