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To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.

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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
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
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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Build Meaning Novel Sex
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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Assumption Enemy Ourselves Space Target
To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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Government Need People Philosophy Religion
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism

To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.

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