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

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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Business Country Faith Fiction Lost Writing
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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Adult Advertise Captive Rise World
You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Greatness Reading Writing Yourself
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
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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Bird Man Stand Time
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
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent 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
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
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
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Human Myself People Problem Solution
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
Love is not my bag.
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Love One Liner
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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Evidence Figure Reading Speech
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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Economy Himself President Understand Work
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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Damage End Greatness Nation Powerful War
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
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
Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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Baseball Play Slow Sports
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True

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

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