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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.

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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’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Identity Myself
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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Book Fact Kind Loose Opinion Popular Question Review Treat
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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Food Human Pattern Population Preserve Race Recognition
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
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
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
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

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