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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
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
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President Time
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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Finding Greatness Pleasure Possible
I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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Appearance Cold Love Warm Water Yourself
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
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Country Finding People State

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