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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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Assumption Enemy Ourselves Space Target
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
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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Damage End Greatness Nation Powerful War
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
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Greatness Reading Writing Yourself
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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