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From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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Colony Mass Rebel War
Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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Company Corporation Country Interest People Yourself
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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Build Meaning Novel Sex
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
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
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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Civil Finding Liberty Live Police
The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Race Teacher Writing
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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Assumption Enemy Ourselves Space Target
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking

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