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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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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
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
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
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
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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Behave Comparison Mindset Myself Team
On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Congress Form Man Weight
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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Artist Discover Emotion Important Known World
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
After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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Diminish Interesting Life Oneself Story
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police

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