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I can understand companionship.

Gore Vidal

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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Invention President Suspend War
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
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
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
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
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
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Race Teacher Writing
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
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
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Natural President Rise Suspicion
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

I can understand companionship.

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