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Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.

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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Myself Nature Pollution Water
Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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Contemporary Realize Young Yourself
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
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
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
It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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Change Reality Time Torture Victim
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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Civilization Country Scale Social Teacher World
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Chaos Moments Opinion Prejudice Public
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
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

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