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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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The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Death Forever Human Race
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
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
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
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
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
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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Hope Myself People Reading Vote
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
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
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
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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