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A beauty is a woman you notice a charmer is one who notices you.
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It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
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To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
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You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
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I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.
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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
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Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
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You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
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Your days are short here this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.
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Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.
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Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
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She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
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You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
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Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom only in men's souls.
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Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.
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Not to destroy but to construct, I hold the unconquerable belief that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war that nations will come together not to destroy but to construct and that the future belongs to those who accomplish most for humanity.
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Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
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