States Olympic Book

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    On September 16, 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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    Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.
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    Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
    Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.
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