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What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.

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In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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Greatness Loud Race Yourself
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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Damage End Greatness Nation Powerful 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
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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Invention President Suspend War
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 the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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Civilization Country Scale Social Teacher World
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Greatness Reading Writing Yourself
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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Goodness Known Ourselves Society
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner

What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.

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What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.

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