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TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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Commitment Democracy Government Independent Party Politics Serious
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Definition Preparation President
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
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Age Believe Exercise Imagination Spirit
Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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Enjoyment Life Military Reality Story
Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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Goodness Government Himself Politics President Public relief
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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Class Genius heavy Ourselves Rule System
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
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
Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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Difference Himself Religion
The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Race Teacher Writing
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
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
Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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Filling Himself Hope Place

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

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