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

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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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Friendship Moments Myself Past Surprise
Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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Difference Himself Religion
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Congress Form Man Weight
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
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
If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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Election Force Yourself
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing
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
I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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Myself Reading Truth
Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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Choice Democracy Feeling Perspective Politics
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics

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