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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Natural President Rise Suspicion
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
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
The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Race Teacher Writing
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
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
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
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
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
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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Beginning Europe Ourselves Sun
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Angry Myself Nature Thinking

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