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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
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Chaos Moments Opinion Prejudice Public
Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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Difference Himself Religion
Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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Company Corporation Country Interest People Yourself
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Congress Form Man Weight
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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Adventure Movie Myself Novel Operation Play Sphere Temporary
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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Money Talk Tax Time
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax

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