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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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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
Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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Contemporary Realize Young Yourself
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Law Myself Potential Reading Review View
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
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
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Definition Preparation President
The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Race Teacher Writing
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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Friendship Moments Myself Past Surprise

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