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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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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
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Best Divorce Finding Ourselves People Stay
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
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
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
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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Impulse People Person Practice Sexual
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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Act Finding Force National Police
To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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Government Need People Philosophy Religion
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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Money Talk Tax Time
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember

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