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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
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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Attack Death Earth Ourselves Thinking
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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Essential Experience Literature Natural Work
Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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Age Country Government Ideas Mischief Provoke Strike
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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Greatness Loud Race Yourself
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
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 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
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
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Candidate Democracy Issues Place
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
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself

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