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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.

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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
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Journalism Reality World
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 corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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Elimination Management Media Object Opinion World
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Definition Preparation President
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
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
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Chaos Moments Opinion Prejudice Public
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

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