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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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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
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
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
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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Depression Government Manager Name People Public Rich War
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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Beginning Europe Ourselves Sun
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
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
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
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
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
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
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Country Finding People State
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People

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