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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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There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Identity Myself
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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Children Country Myself Support
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Impulse People Person Practice Sexual
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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Goodness Government Himself Politics President Public relief
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
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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Choice Democracy Feeling Perspective Politics

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