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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
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Death Forever Human Race
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
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
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
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
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
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
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
I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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Behave Comparison Mindset Myself Team
To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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Food Human Pattern Population Preserve Race Recognition
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
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

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