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I can understand companionship.

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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Death Forever Human Race
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President Time
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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God Graduation Known Yourself
If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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Election Force Yourself
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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Adventure Movie Myself Novel Operation Play Sphere Temporary
Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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Agreement Father Fellow Himself Raise Secret
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
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Election Illumination Language Liberal Society Vote
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Journalism Reality World
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Greatness Reading Writing Yourself
There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Identity Myself

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