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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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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
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Choice Journey Oneself Road
Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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Baseball Play Slow Sports
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
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

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