American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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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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The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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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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I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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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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Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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