The office of the president is such a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.
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You can get some work, some jobs that will bore you until you're dead. So you better look for something that's got a little tingle to it.
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Some time ago, I made a basic decision about the way in which I was going to live the little of life available to me The idea was to place myself in the presence of only those people who give off the warm, friendly vibrations which soothe the coating on my nerves. Life never was long enough to provide time for enemies.
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The trouble with Trump's father was that he was a totally naive man. He had no idea that you could buy the whole news reporting business in New York City with a return phone call.
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Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.
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The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.
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