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There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Identity Myself
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
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
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
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
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
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
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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Contemporary Realize Young Yourself
The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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Money Talk Tax Time
As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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Civil Finding Liberty Live Police

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