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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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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
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
There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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Democracy Party Politics Republic
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Definition Preparation President
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Choice Journey Oneself Road
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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Crime Disturb Order Peace Police Responsibility
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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Capital Death Himself Offense Success Time
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
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
What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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Credible Exception Ignorance Possible Society
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
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

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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