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There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Chaos Moments Opinion Prejudice Public
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
Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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Artist Himself Magic Mystery Public View
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
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
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
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
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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Bird Man Stand Time
There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Impulse People Person Practice Sexual
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity

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