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

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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Choice Journey Oneself Road
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
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
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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Bird Man Stand Time
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
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Different Enemy Oneself Reality
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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Feeling Life Man Yourself
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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God Graduation Known Yourself

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