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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Journalism Reality World
To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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Government Need People Philosophy Religion
After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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Diminish Interesting Life Oneself Story
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
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
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
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
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
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 only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
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

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