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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.

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I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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Bribe Happiness Myself Quite
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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Beginning Europe Ourselves Sun
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
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
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
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President Time
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
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 think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Angry Myself Nature Thinking
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Age Believe Exercise Imagination Spirit
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex

When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.

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