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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.

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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
Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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Enjoyment Life Military Reality Story
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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Difference Himself Religion
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
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
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 unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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Goodness Known Ourselves Society
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Myself Nature Pollution Water
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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