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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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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
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
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
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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Book Edition Grown Library Reading
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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Busy Oneself Sadness Writing
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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Age Perfection Progression Rule Television
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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Assumption Enemy Ourselves Space Target
Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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Agreement Father Fellow Himself Raise Secret
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
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

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