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That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

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Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare.

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The [Kodak is] the only witness I have encountered in my long experience that I couldn't bribe.

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I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.

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What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.

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You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.

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How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the presence of any and all forms of hereditary rank.

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Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

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Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.

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Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.

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A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.

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Experience comes from bad judgment.

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God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.

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Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.

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I've dealt with many crises in my life, but few will ever happen.

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I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.

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There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel, repudiation, & massacre.

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I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.

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I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.

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Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson.

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