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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Congress Form Man Weight
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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Diminish Interesting Life Oneself Story
I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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Bribe Happiness Myself Quite
Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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Evidence Figure Reading Speech
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Business Country Faith Fiction Lost Writing
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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Class Genius heavy Ourselves Rule System
I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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Childhood Home Life Myself Politician Raise
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Human Myself People Problem Solution
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing

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