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Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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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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