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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

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The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Law Myself Potential Reading Review View
Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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Artist Himself Magic Mystery Public View
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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Elimination Management Media Object Opinion World
On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Congress Form Man Weight
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
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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Act Finding Force National Police
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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Difficult Himself Honesty Pretend
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
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Natural President Rise Suspicion

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