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Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.

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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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Capital Death Himself Offense Success Time
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
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
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
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
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Active Literature Lose Time Virtue World Writing
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Material Media Television Top
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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Beginning Europe Ourselves Sun
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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Friendship Moments Myself Past Surprise

Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.

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