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

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Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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Adult Advertise Captive Rise World
It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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Change Reality Time Torture Victim
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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Capital Death Himself Offense Success Time
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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Goodness Known Ourselves Society
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
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
I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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Behave Comparison Mindset Myself Team
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Choice Journey Oneself Road
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics
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
There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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Democracy Party Politics Republic
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
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
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
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
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money

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