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If you don't have your own goals, you'll be doomed to work toward someone else's.
Harry S. Truman
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Harry S. Truman
Age: 88 †
Born: 1884
Born: May 8
Died: 1972
Died: December 26
33Rd U.S. President
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When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.
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If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again.
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