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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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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Natural President Rise Suspicion
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
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
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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Class Genius heavy Ourselves Rule System
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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Greatness Loud Race Yourself
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing
Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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Agreement Father Fellow Himself Raise Secret
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Angry Myself Nature Thinking
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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Credible Exception Ignorance Possible Society
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Hope Newspaper Oneself People Reading

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