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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Country Finding People State
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
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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Age Perfection Progression Rule Television
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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Need Reminder Theatre Well Worth
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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Attack Death Earth Ourselves Thinking
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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Invention President Suspend War
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Natural President Rise Suspicion
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Hope Newspaper Oneself People Reading
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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Finding Greatness Pleasure Possible

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