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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
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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Baseball Play Slow Sports
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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Goodness Known Ourselves Society
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
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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Adult Advertise Captive Rise World
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
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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Believe Comedy Goodness Place Stone Theatre Writing
Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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Hope Myself People Reading Vote
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Greatness Reading Writing Yourself

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