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The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.

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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Angry Myself Nature Thinking
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
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Election Illumination Language Liberal Society Vote
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
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
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 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
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
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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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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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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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.

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