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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Candidate Democracy Issues Place
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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Money Talk Tax Time
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Death Forever Human Race
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
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Greatness Reading Writing Yourself
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 American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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God Graduation Known Yourself
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
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
Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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Believe Comedy Goodness Place Stone Theatre Writing
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President

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