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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.

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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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