The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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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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Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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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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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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I am only at home in the present.
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The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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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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He who is last had best laugh.
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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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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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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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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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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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The media can’t get anything straight.
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