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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.

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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
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Hope Newspaper Oneself People Reading
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 can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
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
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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Artist Himself Magic Mystery Public View
I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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Appearance Cold Love Warm Water Yourself
The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Race Teacher Writing
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
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
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
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Country Finding People State
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing

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