Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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I hate nobody.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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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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Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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TV news is not very instructive.
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While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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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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