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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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Difference Himself Religion
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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Need Reminder Theatre Well Worth
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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Bird Man Stand Time
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Natural President Rise Suspicion
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Identity Myself
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Hope Newspaper Oneself People Reading
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
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics

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