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Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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Economy Himself President Understand Work
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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Choice Democracy Feeling Perspective Politics
I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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Myself Reading Truth
On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Congress Form Man Weight
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
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Chaos Moments Opinion Prejudice Public
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
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
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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Children Country Myself Support
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember

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