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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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Age Country Government Ideas Mischief Provoke Strike
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
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
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
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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Invention President Suspend War
It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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Feeling Life Man Yourself
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
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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Civilization Country Scale Social Teacher World
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Human Myself People Problem Solution
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

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