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Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.

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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
The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Race Teacher Writing
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Impulse People Person Practice Sexual
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Economy Himself President Understand Work
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
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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Build Meaning Novel Sex
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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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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Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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