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

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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
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
Love is not my bag.
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Love One Liner
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Hope Newspaper Oneself People Reading
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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Artist Himself Magic Mystery Public View
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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Food Human Pattern Population Preserve Race Recognition
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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Depression Government Manager Name People Public Rich War
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner

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