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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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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
It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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Change Reality Time Torture Victim
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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Bird Man Stand Time
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
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
Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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Filling Himself Hope Place
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
Love is not my bag.
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Love One Liner
Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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Evidence Figure Reading Speech
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World

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