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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.

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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
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
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
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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Attack Death Earth Ourselves Thinking
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Chaos Moments Opinion Prejudice Public
Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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Assumption Enemy Ourselves Space Target
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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Build Meaning Novel Sex
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
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

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