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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.

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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Human Myself People Problem Solution
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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Diminish Interesting Life Oneself Story
Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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Enjoyment Life Military Reality Story
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Chaos Moments Opinion Prejudice Public
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
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
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
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
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
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
The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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Civilization Country Scale Social Teacher World

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