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I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.

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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Congress Form Man Weight
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
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
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
Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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Assumption Enemy Ourselves Space Target
What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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Book Fact Kind Loose Opinion Popular Question Review Treat
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
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
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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Attack Death Earth Ourselves Thinking
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
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
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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