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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

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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
There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Identity Myself
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
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
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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Bird Man Stand Time
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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Company Corporation Country Interest People Yourself
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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Black Communist Hate Result World
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
It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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Change Reality Time Torture Victim
I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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Childhood Home Life Myself Politician Raise
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal

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