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

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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
To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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Government Need People Philosophy Religion
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Human Myself People Problem Solution
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
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
A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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Friendship Moments Myself Past Surprise
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Business Country Faith Fiction Lost Writing
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
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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Age Perfection Progression Rule Television
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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Diminish Interesting Life Oneself Story
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 is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success

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