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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

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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
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
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
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Candidate Democracy Issues Place
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Different Enemy Oneself Reality
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
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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Damage End Greatness Nation Powerful War
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
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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Government Need People Philosophy Religion
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
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
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

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