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

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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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Capital Death Himself Offense Success Time
Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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Beginning Europe Ourselves Sun
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
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
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
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Age Believe Exercise Imagination Spirit
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Candidate Democracy Issues Place
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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Adult Advertise Captive Rise World
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset

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