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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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In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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Capital Death Himself Offense Success Time
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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Greatness Loud Race Yourself
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
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
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Impulse People Person Practice Sexual
As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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Children Country Myself Support
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Angry Myself Nature Thinking
I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Law Myself Potential Reading Review View
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
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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Need Reminder Theatre Well Worth
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
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

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