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The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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Artist Discover Emotion Important Known World
Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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Contemporary Realize Young Yourself
The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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Civilization Country Scale Social Teacher World
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
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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Action God Karma Life Right Welfare
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing

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