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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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I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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Childhood Home Life Myself Politician Raise
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Material Media Television Top
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
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
I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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Bribe Happiness Myself Quite
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
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
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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Assumption Enemy Ourselves Space Target

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