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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

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There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Impulse People Person Practice Sexual
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
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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Depression Government Manager Name People Public Rich War
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Human Myself People Problem Solution
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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Greatness Loud Race Yourself
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
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
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
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
Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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Beginning Europe Ourselves Sun

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