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Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.

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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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Action God Karma Life Right Welfare
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
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
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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Busy Oneself Sadness Writing
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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Bird Man Stand Time
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
It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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Essential Experience Literature Natural Work
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.

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