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The excitement is growing so much I think the Geiger counter of Olympo-mania is going to go zoink off the scale.
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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.
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The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival.
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The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.
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The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods.
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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure.
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The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.
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The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing impression.
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
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The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
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The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation - must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.
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The idea that the EU is somehow the guarantor of peace on the continent - that is in itself rash, in my view, and risks undermining the vital role of Nato.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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The Italians, who used to be a great motor-manufacturing power, have been absolutely destroyed by the euro - as was intended by the Germans.
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The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.
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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.
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The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.
The least said about Lib Dems, the better, Daily Telegraph, 25 September 2003, p. 24.
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