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Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.

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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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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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From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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Colony Mass Rebel War
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 only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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Baseball Play Slow Sports

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