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I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.

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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Chaos Moments Opinion Prejudice Public
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
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
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
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
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
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Journalism Reality World
I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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Criticism Literature Myself Name University
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
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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Act Finding Force National Police
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression

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