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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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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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Company Corporation Country Interest People Yourself
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing
Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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Choice Democracy Feeling Perspective Politics
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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Civil Finding Liberty Live Police
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President Time
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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Feeling Life Man Yourself
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
To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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Food Human Pattern Population Preserve Race Recognition
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal

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