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Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.

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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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Feeling Life Man Yourself
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
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
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Natural President Rise Suspicion
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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Greatness Loud Race Yourself
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
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
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing

Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.

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