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The people who are voting for Trump are not voting rationally.
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People Trump Voting
Donald Trump is an awful loser.
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Awful Loser Trump
The intelligent Trump supporter will be someone who is so cynical about politics that he wants the world blown up, and doesn’t care if the person doing the blowing up is an obnoxious, infantile vulgarian. I don’t know where to find these people. Do you?
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Cynical Intelligent People
I don’t think there is prejudice against atheists the same way there is prejudice against fat people. I don’t think people hate or contemn atheists; I think people feel sorry for atheists.
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Atheist Hate Sorry
The verb “Garland” should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone’s neck, to make him unemployable.
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Albatross Mean Verbs
I once found myself driving, smoking a cigar, taking notes, and talking on the phone at the same time. I only became completely aware of this when I had to shift, and realized something had to give.
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Giving Phones Talking
America is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.
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America Country Thinking
Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.
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People Splendid Vulgarian
You know, I am not a particular Kennedy apologist or an awed fan – I was 12 when he was murdered – but I have discussed Kennedy with historians. For his incredibly short tenure, he was a very important president.
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Soul Thinking War
It is not a coincidence that Donald Trump has attracted white supremacists.
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Coincidence Trump White
International politics is not my strong suit. The older I get the less certain I am that I even HAVE a strong suit.
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Certain Strong Suits
It’s as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots.
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Order Sides Steak
Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.
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People Reason Way
I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.
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Agony Reality Thinking
From the inside, creativity seems like an arduous task, often involving plebeian, imperfect choices, driven less by inspiration than by deadline.
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Arduous Choices Inside Involving
Trump cannot change because in his mind, he has ALWAYS been rewarded for his boorish, stupid, arrogant behavior.
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Arrogant Mind Stupid
My preference would have been a school that was totally diverse – half and half, or close. I wouldn’t have hesitated at all if they would have been in the racial minority. But to be the only white kids: I don’t think that would have been fair to them.
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Kids Minority School
So, when this kind of thing happens to other people, we need to put them in a different category from us. We don’t want to resemble them, and the fact that we might is too terrifying to deal with. So, they have to be monsters.
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Category Deal Happens Terrifying
I think Trump is simply inept, incapable of rescuing himself.
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Incapable Thinking Trump
Donald Trump’s humor is hostile to a fault.
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Faults Hostile Trump
When my daughter was a senior in high school, I remember noticing, almost in passing, that her friends were very cute. Which made me realize her friends’ fathers probably found Molly very cute.
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Cute Daughter Senior
Making stuff up is the worst thing a journalist can do. Plagiarizing is the second worst.
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Journalist Stuff Worst
Donald Trump is a boor, and cannot stop being a boor.
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Country People Trump
We want to believe that the world is understandable and controllable and unthreatening, that if we follow the rules, we’ll be okay.
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Believe Monster People
It is hard to quantify the value of name recognition, but Donald Trump has gone from fame to international mega-fame. That has to be gargantuan when your business is your name.
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Gone Names Recognition
Politics is how you think about life itself.
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Itself Politics Thinking
I don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
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Clinton Evil Two

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