Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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