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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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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Candidate Democracy Issues Place
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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Attack Death Earth Ourselves Thinking
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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Election Force Yourself
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Active Literature Lose Time Virtue World Writing
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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Government Need People Philosophy Religion
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
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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Agreement Father Fellow Himself Raise Secret
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Best Divorce Finding Ourselves People Stay
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Angry Myself Nature Thinking
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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Greatness Loud Race Yourself

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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