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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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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
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
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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Class Genius heavy Ourselves Rule System
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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Government Need People Philosophy Religion
Love is not my bag.
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Love One Liner
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
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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Act Finding Force National Police
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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Elimination Management Media Object Opinion 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
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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Credible Exception Ignorance Possible Society
What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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Book Fact Kind Loose Opinion Popular Question Review Treat

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