To act coolly, intelligently, and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man – and also a nation.
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Confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
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There is…a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied..
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To have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
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The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations
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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
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A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
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I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.
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For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
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The law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
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And when we lose faith in the system
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Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.
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It is not even a protection if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams
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I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
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The university is the archive of the Western mind, it’s the keeper of the Western culture, …
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