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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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As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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Civil Finding Liberty Live Police
Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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Choice Democracy Feeling Perspective Politics
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
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
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Natural President Rise Suspicion
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
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
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Candidate Democracy Issues Place
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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Diminish Interesting Life Oneself Story
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World

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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