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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.

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The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Death Forever Human Race
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
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
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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Friendship Moments Myself Past Surprise
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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Build Meaning Novel Sex
There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Identity Myself
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
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Death Department Nation State
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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Commitment Democracy Government Independent Party Politics Serious
The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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Money Talk Tax Time
It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Best Divorce Finding Ourselves People Stay
Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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Hope Myself People Reading Vote
There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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Democracy Party Politics Republic
Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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Baseball Play Slow Sports

The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.

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