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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.

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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Country Finding People State
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
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
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Death Department Nation State
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
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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Difficult Himself Honesty Pretend
Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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Enjoyment Life Military Reality Story
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Age Believe Exercise Imagination Spirit
You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Greatness Reading Writing Yourself
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
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
Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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Beginning Europe Ourselves Sun
There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Impulse People Person Practice Sexual
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
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity

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