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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
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
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
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
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
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Death Forever Human Race
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
As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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Children Country Myself Support
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
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
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Age Believe Exercise Imagination Spirit
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
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President

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