Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom.
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Anand Thakur
Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom.
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In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it’s just one of the risks he takes.
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But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
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Is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
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Great or small–to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady
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The ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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And this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
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That nations will come together not to destroy but to construct and that the future belongs to those who accomplish most for humanity.
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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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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
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But a newspaper can always print a retraction.
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And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven.
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Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
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