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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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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
The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Race Teacher Writing
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
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
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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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
What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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Book Fact Kind Loose Opinion Popular Question Review Treat
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
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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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
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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I am only at home in the present.
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