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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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TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
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
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Hope Newspaper Oneself People Reading
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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Credible Exception Ignorance Possible Society
I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Myself Nature Pollution Water
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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Beginning Europe Ourselves Sun

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