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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.

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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
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
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Country Finding People State
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
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
Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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Age Country Government Ideas Mischief Provoke Strike
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Natural President Rise Suspicion
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Active Literature Lose Time Virtue World Writing
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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