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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
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
The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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God Graduation Known Yourself
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
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
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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Change Reality Time Torture Victim
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
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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Damage End Greatness Nation Powerful War
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Age Believe Exercise Imagination Spirit

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