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We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

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TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
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
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
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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Age Perfection Progression Rule Television
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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Credible Exception Ignorance Possible Society
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
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
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
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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Character Creation Impression Myself Settle Writing
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
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
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics

We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

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We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

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