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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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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 not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Different Enemy Oneself Reality
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing
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
On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Congress Form Man Weight
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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Capital Death Himself Offense Success Time
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
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Election Illumination Language Liberal Society Vote
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Greatness Reading Writing Yourself
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Human Myself People Problem Solution
As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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Civil Finding Liberty Live Police

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