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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.

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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
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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Crime Disturb Order Peace Police Responsibility
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
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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Build Meaning Novel Sex
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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Need Reminder Theatre Well Worth
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Journalism Reality World
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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Age Perfection Progression Rule Television
What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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Credible Exception Ignorance Possible Society
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
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
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

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