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

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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
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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Age Country Government Ideas Mischief Provoke Strike
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Age Believe Exercise Imagination Spirit
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
There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Identity Myself
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
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
There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Impulse People Person Practice Sexual
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
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
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
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex

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