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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.

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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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Happiness Liberty Life Right
To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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Invention President Suspend War
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
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Different Enemy Oneself Reality
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
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
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
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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Food Human Pattern Population Preserve Race Recognition
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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Adult Advertise Captive Rise World
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
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
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
If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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Election Force Yourself
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember

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