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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

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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
Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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Hope Myself People Reading Vote
The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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Book Edition Grown Library Reading
I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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Behave Comparison Mindset Myself Team
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
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
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
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Material Media Television Top
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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Adventure Movie Myself Novel Operation Play Sphere Temporary
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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Depression Government Manager Name People Public Rich War

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