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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
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
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
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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Age Perfection Progression Rule Television
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
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President Time
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
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
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
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
Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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Age Country Government Ideas Mischief Provoke Strike
Love is not my bag.
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Love One Liner
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics

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