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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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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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Diminish Interesting Life Oneself Story
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
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
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
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
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
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
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
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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Age Perfection Progression Rule Television
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
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
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Death Forever Human Race

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