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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.

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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
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
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
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
A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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Friendship Moments Myself Past Surprise
It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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Essential Experience Literature Natural Work
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
Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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Beginning Europe Ourselves Sun
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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Busy Oneself Sadness Writing
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History

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