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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
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Material Media Television Top
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
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
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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Behave Comparison Mindset Myself Team
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
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
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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Busy Oneself Sadness Writing
A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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Friendship Moments Myself Past Surprise
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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Elimination Management Media Object Opinion World
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice
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
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember

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