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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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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
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
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
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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Elimination Management Media Object Opinion World
While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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Goodness Known Ourselves Society
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
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
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
Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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Agreement Father Fellow Himself Raise Secret
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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Black Communist Hate Result World
I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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Myself Reading Truth

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