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

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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
As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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Civil Finding Liberty Live Police
If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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Election Force Yourself
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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Attack Death Earth Ourselves Thinking
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Myself Nature Pollution Water
In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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Act Finding Force National Police
The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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Civilization Country Scale Social Teacher World
Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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Black Communist Hate Result World
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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Childhood Home Life Myself Politician Raise
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Human Myself People Problem Solution

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