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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?

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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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Build Meaning Novel Sex
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
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
I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Different Enemy Oneself Reality
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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Civilization Country Scale Social Teacher World
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Hope Newspaper Oneself People Reading
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
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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Behave Comparison Mindset Myself Team
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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Damage End Greatness Nation Powerful War
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset

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