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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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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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Bird Man Stand Time
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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Colony Mass Rebel War
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
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
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Journalism Reality World
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Angry Myself Nature Thinking
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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Civilization Country Scale Social Teacher World
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Choice Journey Oneself Road
Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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Black Communist Hate Result World
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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Finding Greatness Pleasure Possible

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