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Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.

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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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Diminish Interesting Life Oneself Story
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
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
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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Attack Death Earth Ourselves Thinking
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
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
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
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
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
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
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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Depression Government Manager Name People Public Rich War
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
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

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