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Quotes by American Authors
"And I'm asking for your support because I want to defend America, as I've said before, from becoming a socialist nation."
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"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."
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"You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere."
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"Most important, I have learned from my colleagues and students."
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"We live in a time of conflict - external and internal - when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger."
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"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run."
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"I not only urge you to vote that ticket yourself, but I beg that you will persuade others to do so. Personal effort can accomplish a great deal, and I beg that you will use your personal influence with your friends to get them to go with you to save the boys."
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"To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle."
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"Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God."
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"Women have begun to see that if I go through that doorway, I take everybody through it."
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"If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence."
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"With that in mind and in celebration of National Prayer Day, today I have proposed in the House of Representatives a Constitutional Amendment that would restore voluntary prayer in our Nation's schools."
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"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself."
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"This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future."
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"Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice."
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"It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached."
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"We have an opportunity, but we have an obligation to senior citizens and to the younger people who are entering the workforce today to help ensure that they are going to be able to trust the government to have a workable program that benefits them as well."
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"We're producing a movie now, 'The Onion' Movie, and it's very difficult for me to be on the set. If I'm not right in the trenches, it's very difficult for me to watch another director, because I'm not involved and it's not exciting."
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"Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made."
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"Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business."
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"Number three, we're going to play very smart and we're not going to beat ourselves. If the other team is better than us and they just out execute us and play better then we can live with that, but we're going to play smart and give ourselves every opportunity to win the game."
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"It is my belief that tax credits only go to people who are making money, and they generally keep it."
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"I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views."
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"Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history."
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"The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few."
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"It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation."
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"Working together during the past three years, we have confounded the skeptics and the cynics. We've shown that here in Virginia, Democrats and Republicans can come together, put politics aside, and make tough decisions when times demand it."
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"Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs."
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"Nothing can stop the attack of aircraft except other aircraft."
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"The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example."
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"I was fourteen when Kissinger made his secret trip to China, and then there was subsequently Nixon's trip to China, and I was very much seized with an interest in China."
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"The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair."
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"All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September 11 and thought him to have the requisite leadership skills, they continue to harbor doubts about his priorities, loyalties, interests, and policies."
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"War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters."
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