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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.

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As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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Civil Finding Liberty Live Police
Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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Filling Himself Hope Place
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Chaos Moments Opinion Prejudice Public
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
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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Depression Government Manager Name People Public Rich War
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
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
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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Election Force Yourself
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Best Divorce Finding Ourselves People Stay
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading

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