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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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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
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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Finding Greatness Pleasure Possible
Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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Enjoyment Life Military Reality Story
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
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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Goodness Government Himself Politics President Public relief
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
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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Civilization Country Scale Social Teacher World
Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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Commitment Democracy Government Independent Party Politics Serious
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Angry Myself Nature Thinking
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Country Finding People State
To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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Invention President Suspend War
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Natural President Rise Suspicion
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax

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