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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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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
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’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Different Enemy Oneself Reality
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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Credible Exception Ignorance Possible Society
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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Colony Mass Rebel War
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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God Graduation Known Yourself
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
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
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
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
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
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember

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