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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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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Hope Newspaper Oneself People Reading
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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Busy Oneself Sadness Writing
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
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
There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Identity Myself
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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Baseball Play Slow Sports
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
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Election Illumination Language Liberal Society Vote
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Death Department Nation State
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
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
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
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

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