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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.

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I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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Essential Experience Literature Natural Work
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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Artist Discover Emotion Important Known World
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
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
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
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 American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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God Graduation Known Yourself
Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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Difference Himself Religion
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 United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Country Finding People State

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