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

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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Definition Preparation President
Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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Baseball Play Slow Sports
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
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
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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Need Reminder Theatre Well Worth
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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Assumption Enemy Ourselves Space Target
Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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Crime Disturb Order Peace Police Responsibility
Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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Evidence Figure Reading Speech
Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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Company Corporation Country Interest People Yourself
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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Age Perfection Progression Rule Television
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
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Human Myself People Problem Solution

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