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In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
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