Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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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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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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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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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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