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World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.

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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
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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Elimination Management Media Object Opinion World
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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Age Perfection Progression Rule Television
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
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
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Natural President Rise Suspicion
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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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

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