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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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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
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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Age Believe Exercise Imagination Spirit
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
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
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
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
I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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Myself Reading Truth
From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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Colony Mass Rebel War
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
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself

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