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I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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Behave Comparison Mindset Myself Team
Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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Difference Himself Religion
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Material Media Television Top
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Chaos Moments Opinion Prejudice Public
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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Bird Man Stand Time
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
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Election Illumination Language Liberal Society Vote
The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Race Teacher Writing
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money

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