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The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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Appearance Cold Love Warm Water Yourself
Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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Evidence Figure Reading Speech
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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Action God Karma Life Right Welfare
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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Civil Finding Liberty Live Police
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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Crime Disturb Order Peace Police Responsibility
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
What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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Book Fact Kind Loose Opinion Popular Question Review Treat
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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Bird Man Stand Time
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
Love is not my bag.
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Love One Liner

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