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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
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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Adult Advertise Captive Rise World
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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Agreement Father Fellow Himself Raise Secret
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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Class Genius heavy Ourselves Rule System
I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Myself Nature Pollution Water
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
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
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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Artist Discover Emotion Important Known World
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
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Angry Myself Nature Thinking
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Active Literature Lose Time Virtue World Writing
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

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