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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
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Human Myself People Problem Solution
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Angry Myself Nature Thinking
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
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
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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