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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.

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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
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
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Chaos Moments Opinion Prejudice Public
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
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Candidate Democracy Issues Place
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
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
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President Time
Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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Action God Karma Life Right Welfare
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
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
In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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Character Creation Impression Myself Settle Writing

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