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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.

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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
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Active Literature Lose Time Virtue World Writing
I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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Childhood Home Life Myself Politician Raise
A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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Friendship Moments Myself Past Surprise
To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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Government Need People Philosophy Religion
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
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
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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Agreement Father Fellow Himself Raise Secret
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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Class Genius heavy Ourselves Rule System
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember

What I like least about myself is my belligerence.

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