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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.

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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Best Divorce Finding Ourselves People Stay
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Material Media Television Top
Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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Age Country Government Ideas Mischief Provoke Strike
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Race Teacher Writing
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Chaos Moments Opinion Prejudice Public
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
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
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
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
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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Bird Man Stand Time
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
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
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success

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