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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.

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The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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God Graduation Known Yourself
The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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Book Edition Grown Library Reading
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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Civilization Country Scale Social Teacher World
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Death Department Nation State
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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Colony Mass Rebel War
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
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
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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Difference Himself Religion
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President Time
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset

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