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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.

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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
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
There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Identity Myself
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
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’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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Feeling Life Man Yourself
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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Choice Democracy Feeling Perspective Politics
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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Build Meaning Novel Sex
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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Depression Government Manager Name People Public Rich War
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Business Country Faith Fiction Lost Writing

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