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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.

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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
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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Capital Death Himself Offense Success Time
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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Colony Mass Rebel War
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
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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Assumption Enemy Ourselves Space Target
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Natural President Rise Suspicion
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History

What I like least about myself is my belligerence.

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