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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.

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Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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Black Communist Hate Result World
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
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
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Death Forever Human Race
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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Build Meaning Novel Sex
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
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 other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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Colony Mass Rebel War
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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Difficult Himself Honesty Pretend
The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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Civilization Country Scale Social Teacher World
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal

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