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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’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
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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Depression Government Manager Name People Public Rich War
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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Money Talk Tax Time
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
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
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics
I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Law Myself Potential Reading Review View
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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Greatness Loud Race Yourself
The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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God Graduation Known Yourself
In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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Act Finding Force National Police
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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Age Country Government Ideas Mischief Provoke Strike
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
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
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
It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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Feeling Life Man Yourself
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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Essential Experience Literature Natural Work
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Natural President Rise Suspicion

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