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Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.

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It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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Difficult Himself Honesty Pretend
The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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Civilization Country Scale Social Teacher World
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Definition Preparation President
While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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Goodness Known Ourselves Society
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
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
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
I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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Criticism Literature Myself Name University
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
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
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
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

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