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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.

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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
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
It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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Feeling Life Man Yourself
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
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
Love is not my bag.
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Love One Liner
While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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Goodness Known Ourselves Society
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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Difference Himself Religion
It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Best Divorce Finding Ourselves People Stay
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
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
To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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Invention President Suspend War
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
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
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
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
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
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Death Department Nation State
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
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Election Illumination Language Liberal Society Vote

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