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

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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
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
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
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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Capital Death Himself Offense Success Time
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
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
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Death Department Nation State
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Material Media Television Top
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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Bird Man Stand Time

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