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To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.

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Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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Company Corporation Country Interest People Yourself
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Impulse People Person Practice Sexual
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
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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Book Edition Grown Library Reading
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Death Forever Human Race
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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Contemporary Realize Young Yourself
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
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax

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