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The United States is a madhouse.

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Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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Economy Himself President Understand Work
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Angry Myself Nature Thinking
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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Need Reminder Theatre Well Worth
Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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Filling Himself Hope Place
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
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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Crime Disturb Order Peace Police Responsibility
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
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
The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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Money Talk Tax Time
Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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Goodness Government Himself Politics President Public relief
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
Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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Evidence Figure Reading Speech
Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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Commitment Democracy Government Independent Party Politics Serious

The United States is a madhouse.

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