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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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Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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Civil Finding Liberty Live Police
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Journalism Reality World
On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Congress Form Man Weight
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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Build Meaning Novel Sex
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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Age Country Government Ideas Mischief Provoke Strike
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
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success

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