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

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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
It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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Feeling Life Man Yourself
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Human Myself People Problem Solution
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
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True
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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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
To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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Food Human Pattern Population Preserve Race Recognition
Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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Hope Myself People Reading Vote
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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Believe Comedy Goodness Place Stone Theatre Writing
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

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