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

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Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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Action God Karma Life Right Welfare
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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Company Corporation Country Interest People Yourself
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
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
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
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
The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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Money Talk Tax Time
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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Crime Disturb Order Peace Police Responsibility
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself

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