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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.

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Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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Adult Advertise Captive Rise World
From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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Colony Mass Rebel War
I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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Childhood Home Life Myself Politician Raise
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Business Country Faith Fiction Lost Writing
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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Capital Death Himself Offense Success Time
In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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Act Finding Force National Police
It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Best Divorce Finding Ourselves People Stay
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
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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Contemporary Realize Young Yourself
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember

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