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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.

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There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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Democracy Party Politics Republic
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Definition Preparation President
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
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
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
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
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
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
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 am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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Age Country Government Ideas Mischief Provoke Strike
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth

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