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Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.

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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Law Myself Potential Reading Review View
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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Invention President Suspend War
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
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
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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Assumption Enemy Ourselves Space Target
The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Race Teacher Writing
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State

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