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Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.

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Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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Economy Himself President Understand Work
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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Bird Man Stand Time
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 Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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Money Talk Tax Time
I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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Appearance Cold Love Warm Water Yourself
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Business Country Faith Fiction Lost Writing
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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Credible Exception Ignorance Possible Society
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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Democracy Party Politics Republic
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time

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