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Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.

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In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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Greatness Loud Race Yourself
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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Crime Disturb Order Peace Police Responsibility
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
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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Filling Himself Hope Place
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics
I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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Criticism Literature Myself Name University
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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Government Need People Philosophy Religion
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
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success

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