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The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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Money Talk Tax Time
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
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
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
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
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Law Myself Potential Reading Review View
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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Build Meaning Novel Sex
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Natural President Rise Suspicion
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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Filling Himself Hope Place

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