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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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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
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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Need Reminder Theatre Well Worth
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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Evidence Figure Reading Speech
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
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
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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Government Need People Philosophy Religion
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
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

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