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Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.

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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
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
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
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
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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Hope Myself People Reading Vote
It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Best Divorce Finding Ourselves People Stay
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
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
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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Age Perfection Progression Rule Television
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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Enjoyment Life Military Reality Story

Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.

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Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.

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