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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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My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
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
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
I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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Criticism Literature Myself Name University
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
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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Class Genius heavy Ourselves Rule System
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
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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Attack Death Earth Ourselves Thinking
Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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Goodness Government Himself Politics President Public relief
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World

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