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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
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
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
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
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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Difference Himself Religion
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
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
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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Difficult Himself Honesty Pretend
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Chaos Moments Opinion Prejudice Public
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
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
While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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Goodness Known Ourselves Society

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