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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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Love is not my bag.
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Love One Liner
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Chaos Moments Opinion Prejudice Public
There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Identity Myself
I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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Criticism Literature Myself Name University
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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Filling Himself Hope Place
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
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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Food Human Pattern Population Preserve Race Recognition
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President Time
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
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics
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
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History

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