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

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Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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Goodness Government Himself Politics President Public relief
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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Build Meaning Novel Sex
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
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
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Choice Journey Oneself Road
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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Artist Discover Emotion Important Known World
The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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Book Edition Grown Library Reading
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
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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