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

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The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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Money Talk Tax Time
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
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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Book Edition Grown Library Reading
It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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Change Reality Time Torture Victim
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
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
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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Class Genius heavy Ourselves Rule System
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself

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