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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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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
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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Depression Government Manager Name People Public Rich War
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
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
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
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
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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Bird Man Stand Time
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
It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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Change Reality Time Torture Victim
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right

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