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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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Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
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
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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Enjoyment Life Military Reality Story
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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Death Department Nation State
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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Bird Man Stand Time
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
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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Need Reminder Theatre Well Worth
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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Economy Himself President Understand Work
The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Race Teacher Writing
Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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Artist Himself Magic Mystery Public View
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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Change Reality Time Torture Victim
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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Busy Oneself Sadness Writing

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