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Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.

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In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Choice Journey Oneself Road
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
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
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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Adult Advertise Captive Rise World
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Law Myself Potential Reading Review View
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
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
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Natural President Rise Suspicion
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
To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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Food Human Pattern Population Preserve Race Recognition
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal

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