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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.

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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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Artist Himself Magic Mystery Public View
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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Feeling Life Man Yourself
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President Time
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
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
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
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
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
Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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Commitment Democracy Government Independent Party Politics Serious
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World

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