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I am not, at heart, a playwright.

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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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Agreement Father Fellow Himself Raise Secret
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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Elimination Management Media Object Opinion World
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Country Finding People State
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Death Department Nation State
I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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Appearance Cold Love Warm Water Yourself
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Death Forever Human Race
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
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
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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Hope Newspaper Oneself People Reading
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

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