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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.

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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Civilization Country Scale Social Teacher World
Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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Difference Himself Religion
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
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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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
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
Love is not my bag.
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Love One Liner
To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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Food Human Pattern Population Preserve Race Recognition
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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