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People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.

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The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren’t carried out at the bidding of a few malefactors of great wealth.
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Carry Country Crow Exile Extermination Law Passage Perpetuation Savery
The world is being run by irresponsible spoiled brats.
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Being Brat Irresponsible Spoil World
You can’t destroy America by destroying our elite. Think about America’s elite. Think about it down through history. Destroy our elite, and about half the time, you’re doing us a favor.
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Country Detroit Down Elite History Think
Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it’s got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It’s not pretty. But it’s striking, I’ll give it that. It’s not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
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Actual City Country Give Kind Nearly Over Pretty Strik Top
Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
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Bad Family Love Messy Pattern Wallpaper
The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?
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Administration Attack Country Gun Hell Nut President Religious
Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren’t present.
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Flatter Gossip Object Present
There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as ‘caring’ and ‘sensitive’ because he wants to expand the government’s charitable programs is merely saying that he’s willing to try to do good with other people’s money.
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Advocate Charity Compulsory Government Merely Politician Virtue
There isn’t much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.
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More Much Outside Print Room View
I’ve got a 1990 Porsche 911. It’s just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
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Got Little Love Simple Straightforward Thing
The 1960s was an era of big thoughts. And yet, amazingly, each of these thoughts could fit on a T-shirt.
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Big Each Era Shirt Thought
A humorist doesn’t really do that much note-taking.
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Humorist Much Note Really Talk
Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
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Accept Blink Eye Gay Happen Marriage
Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
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Catch Contemporary Country English Flourish Phrase
No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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Collapse Daily False Industry Journalism Memory Print
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes – the whole bag of tricks.
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Black Church Classical English People Preach Scheme Speak Troop

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