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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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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
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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Friendship Moments Myself Past Surprise
Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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Agreement Father Fellow Himself Raise Secret
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
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
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
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
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Country Finding People State
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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Damage End Greatness Nation Powerful War
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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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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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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