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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.

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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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Character Creation Impression Myself Settle Writing
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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Democracy Party Politics Republic
Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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Filling Himself Hope Place
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
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Choice Journey Oneself Road
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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Election Force Yourself
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
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
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
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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Age Country Government Ideas Mischief Provoke Strike
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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Attack Death Earth Ourselves Thinking
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Active Literature Lose Time Virtue World Writing
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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Evidence Figure Reading Speech
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Myself Nature Pollution Water
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
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset

In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.

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