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Some of my father's fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, 'I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.' We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.

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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.

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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.

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Americans have no idea of the extent of their government's mischief... the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.

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It's always best to stay out of other people's divorces. And their civil wars.

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Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.

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What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.

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Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.

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Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?

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By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America's hegemony lasted exactly five years.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: October 3rd, 1925

Died: July 31st, 2012

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