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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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I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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Myself Reading Truth
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
Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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Action God Karma Life Right Welfare
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
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
There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Identity Myself
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
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
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
The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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God Graduation Known Yourself
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
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
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History

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