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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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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Best Divorce Finding Ourselves People Stay
There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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Democracy Party Politics Republic
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Identity Myself
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
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Journalism Reality World
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
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
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Death Forever Human Race
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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Book Fact Kind Loose Opinion Popular Question Review Treat
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
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
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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Busy Oneself Sadness Writing

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