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

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To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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Food Human Pattern Population Preserve Race Recognition
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
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
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
Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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Baseball Play Slow Sports
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
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
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
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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Civil Finding Liberty Live Police
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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Evidence Figure Reading Speech
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True
I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Law Myself Potential Reading Review View

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