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If I had feelings, I probably wouldn’t have even survived.
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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I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.
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The student who invades an administration building, roughs up a dean, rifles the files and issues 'non-negotiable demands' may have some of his demands met by a permissive university administration. But the greater his 'victory' the more he will have undermined the security of his own rights.
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[The public lands represent] in a sense, the breathing space of the nation.
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I'm not going to be the first American president to lose a war.
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I never leave a game before the last pitch, because in baseball, as in life and especially politics, you never know what will happen.
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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.
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I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.
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What a strange creature man is that he fouls his own nest.
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To a crisis of the spirit, we need an answer of the spirit. To find that answer, we need only look within ourselves. When we listen to the better angels of our nature, we find that they celebrate the simple things, the basic things--such as goodness, decency, love, kindness. Greatness comes in simple trappings.
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My gravest secret is that I really did fake the moon landing. On Venus!
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I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
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Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.
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There can be no whitewash at the White House.
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Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out. You can drown. Or you can be pulled ashore by the tide. But it is awfully hard to get out when you are in the middle of the stream -- if it is intended that you stay there.
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Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation.
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