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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 human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Death Forever Human Race
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Natural President Rise Suspicion
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Country Finding People State
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Material Media Television Top
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Myself Nature Pollution Water
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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Food Human Pattern Population Preserve Race Recognition
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
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
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong

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