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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.

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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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Assumption Enemy Ourselves Space Target
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
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
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
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
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
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics
Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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Choice Democracy Feeling Perspective Politics
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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Damage End Greatness Nation Powerful War
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
Love is not my bag.
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Love One Liner
Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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Goodness Government Himself Politics President Public relief
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Death Department Nation State
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History

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