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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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The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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Book Edition Grown Library Reading
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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Food Human Pattern Population Preserve Race Recognition
Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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Crime Disturb Order Peace Police Responsibility
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
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
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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Agreement Father Fellow Himself Raise Secret
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
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President Time
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
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
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression

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