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

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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
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
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
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
Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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Agreement Father Fellow Himself Raise Secret
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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Behave Comparison Mindset Myself Team
It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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Change Reality Time Torture Victim
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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Character Creation Impression Myself Settle Writing
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
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
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Hope Newspaper Oneself People Reading

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