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I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.

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In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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Economy Himself President Understand Work
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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Contemporary Realize Young Yourself
Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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Company Corporation Country Interest People Yourself
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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Essential Experience Literature Natural Work
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Journalism Reality World
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
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
There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Identity Myself
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
Love is not my bag.
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Love One Liner
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing

I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.

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