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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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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
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
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
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
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
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
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Material Media Television Top
Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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Beginning Europe Ourselves Sun

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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