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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
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics
As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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Civil Finding Liberty Live Police
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
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
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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Children Country Myself Support
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 only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
Love is not my bag.
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Love One Liner
I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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Appearance Cold Love Warm Water Yourself

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