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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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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
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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Damage End Greatness Nation Powerful War
Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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Beginning Europe Ourselves Sun
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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Elimination Management Media Object Opinion World
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
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
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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Hope Myself People Reading Vote
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
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
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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Choice Democracy Feeling Perspective Politics
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
After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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Diminish Interesting Life Oneself Story
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
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

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