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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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Love is not my bag.
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Love One Liner
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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Evidence Figure Reading Speech
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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Book Edition Grown Library Reading
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Human Myself People Problem Solution
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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Busy Oneself Sadness Writing
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
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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Choice Democracy Feeling Perspective Politics
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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Class Genius heavy Ourselves Rule System
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
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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Black Communist Hate Result World

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