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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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I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Myself Nature Pollution Water
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Definition Preparation President
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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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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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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Election Force Yourself
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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Elimination Management Media Object Opinion 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
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Angry Myself Nature Thinking
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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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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