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

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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
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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Government Need People Philosophy Religion
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
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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Enjoyment Life Military Reality Story
I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Different Enemy Oneself Reality
I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Myself Nature Pollution Water
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
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
From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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Colony Mass Rebel War
It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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Feeling Life Man Yourself
It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Best Divorce Finding Ourselves People Stay
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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Filling Himself Hope Place
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
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
Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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Choice Democracy Feeling Perspective Politics
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 media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing

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

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