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Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have.
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Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
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Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.
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Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.
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People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.
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Philanthropist. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
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Philanthropist: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.
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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all- the apathy of human beings.
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Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
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Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.
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Tennessee obviously has a proud history of military service, but unfortunately, that also means that we have lost a lot of people serving the country who are Tennesseans.
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The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
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The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.
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The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
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The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
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The ocean is a body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
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