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Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
Richard M. Nixon
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Richard M. Nixon
Age: 81 †
Born: 1913
Born: January 9
Died: 1994
Died: April 22
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Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.
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Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.
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We still think of air as free. But clean air is not free, and neither is clean water. The price tag on pollution control is high. Through our years of past carelessness we incurred a debt to nature, and now that debt is being called.
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With all our differences, whenever we are confronted with a threat to our security we are not then Republicans or Democrats but Americans we are not then the fifty states but the United States.
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Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?
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Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them back.
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By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.
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Because of the realities of human nature, perfect peace is achieved in two places only: in the grave and at the typewriter.
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