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

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There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Identity Myself
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
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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Depression Government Manager Name People Public Rich War
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
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
Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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Company Corporation Country Interest People Yourself
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
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
There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Impulse People Person Practice Sexual
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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Artist Himself Magic Mystery Public View

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