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Does one ever read a politician’s books?

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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
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
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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Attack Death Earth Ourselves Thinking
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Active Literature Lose Time Virtue World Writing
I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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Appearance Cold Love Warm Water Yourself
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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Evidence Figure Reading Speech
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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Feeling Life Man Yourself
To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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Invention President Suspend War

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