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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.

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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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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
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Business Country Faith Fiction Lost Writing
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
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
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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In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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The media can’t get anything straight.
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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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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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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