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Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.

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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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Depression Government Manager Name People Public Rich War
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
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
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
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
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
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Best Divorce Finding Ourselves People Stay
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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Friendship Moments Myself Past Surprise
To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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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

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