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From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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Colony Mass Rebel War
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
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
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
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
Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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Company Corporation Country Interest People Yourself
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
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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Elimination Management Media Object Opinion World
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Human Myself People Problem Solution
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
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
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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Difficult Himself Honesty Pretend
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence

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