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Does one ever read a politician’s books?

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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Definition Preparation President
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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Money Talk Tax Time
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Best Divorce Finding Ourselves People Stay
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Choice Journey Oneself Road
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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Busy Oneself Sadness Writing
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand

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