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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Congress Form Man Weight
As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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Children Country Myself Support
Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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Contemporary Realize Young Yourself
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
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
Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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Age Country Government Ideas Mischief Provoke Strike
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Material Media Television Top
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
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
It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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Essential Experience Literature Natural Work
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
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever

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