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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

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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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Candidate Democracy Issues Place
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Class Genius heavy Ourselves Rule System
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Different Enemy Oneself Reality
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
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
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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Artist Himself Magic Mystery Public View
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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Childhood Home Life Myself Politician Raise
Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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Action God Karma Life Right Welfare
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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Civilization Country Scale Social Teacher World
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
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
Love is not my bag.
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Love One Liner

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

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