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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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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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Need Reminder Theatre Well Worth
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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Artist Discover Emotion Important Known World
What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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Book Fact Kind Loose Opinion Popular Question Review Treat
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
Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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Black Communist Hate Result World
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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Assumption Enemy Ourselves Space Target
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
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Race Teacher Writing
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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Bird Man Stand Time
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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Democracy Party Politics Republic
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
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
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
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Angry Myself Nature Thinking

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