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In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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Character Creation Impression Myself Settle Writing
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
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
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
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
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Definition Preparation President
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
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
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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Economy Himself President Understand Work
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President Time
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Choice Journey Oneself Road
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

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