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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.

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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
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
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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Baseball Play Slow Sports
On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Congress Form Man Weight
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
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
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Definition Preparation President
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Death Department Nation State
Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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Choice Democracy Feeling Perspective Politics
While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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Goodness Known Ourselves Society

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