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

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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
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
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
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
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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Contemporary Realize Young Yourself
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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Choice Democracy Feeling Perspective Politics
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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Essential Experience Literature Natural Work
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
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
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
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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Build Meaning Novel Sex
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
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
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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Civilization Country Scale Social Teacher World
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Definition Preparation President

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