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

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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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Evidence Figure Reading Speech
What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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Credible Exception Ignorance Possible Society
There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Impulse People Person Practice Sexual
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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Goodness Known Ourselves Society
I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Myself Nature Pollution Water
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Active Literature Lose Time Virtue World 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
Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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Commitment Democracy Government Independent Party Politics Serious
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President

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