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As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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Food Human Pattern Population Preserve Race Recognition
It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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Change Reality Time Torture Victim
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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Build Meaning Novel Sex
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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Action God Karma Life Right Welfare
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Natural President Rise Suspicion
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
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
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

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