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

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There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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Democracy Party Politics Republic
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Natural President Rise Suspicion
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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Need Reminder Theatre Well Worth
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
Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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Black Communist Hate Result World
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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Credible Exception Ignorance Possible Society
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

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