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To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.
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To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.
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To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.
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Today 80 percent of all the oil that comes out of the Gulf is from 1,000 feet or more and today almost a third of it is more than 5,000 feet below the surface. What hasn't happened is the safety and the ability to respond to a negative event such as this blowout, has been far outrun by the technology of drilling itself. We need to close that gap.
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Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.
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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.
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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
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Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why - but the editorialists forget it - terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.
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Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs.
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Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.
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Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an ''act'' and he told the audience, ''This is my act.'' Today's comic is not doing an act. The audience assumes he's telling the truth. What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.
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Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.
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Today, people struggle to find what's real. Everything has become so synthetic that a lot of people, all they want is to grasp onto hope.
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Todd Palin's frequent presence in the governor's office led some in Juneau to call him the 'Shadow Governor.' But it had never been clear, at least to the public, what roles he played.
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Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
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Tombstone - An ugly reminder of one who has been forgotten.
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Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft.
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Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard.
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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
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