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There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
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
Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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Baseball Play Slow Sports
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
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
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
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Candidate Democracy Issues Place
Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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Economy Himself President Understand Work
Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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Enjoyment Life Military Reality Story
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

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