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Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.

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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
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
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
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
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
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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Depression Government Manager Name People Public Rich War
Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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Commitment Democracy Government Independent Party Politics Serious
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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Greatness Loud Race Yourself

Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.

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