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

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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
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
I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Law Myself Potential Reading Review View
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Natural President Rise Suspicion
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
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
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
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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Black Communist Hate Result World
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
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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