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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
As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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Children Country Myself Support
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
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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Attack Death Earth Ourselves Thinking
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
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
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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Crime Disturb Order Peace Police Responsibility
Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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Age Country Government Ideas Mischief Provoke Strike

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