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I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.

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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
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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Friendship Moments Myself Past Surprise
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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Election Force Yourself
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
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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Assumption Enemy Ourselves Space Target
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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Finding Greatness Pleasure Possible
It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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Essential Experience Literature Natural Work
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
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life

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