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To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.

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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
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
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
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Angry Myself Nature Thinking
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
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
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Choice Journey Oneself Road
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
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
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
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
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World

To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.

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