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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.

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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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Character Creation Impression Myself Settle Writing
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
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
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Age Believe Exercise Imagination Spirit
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics
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
The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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Civilization Country Scale Social Teacher World
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Candidate Democracy Issues Place
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
You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Greatness Reading Writing Yourself
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People

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