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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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Don't try to take on a new personality it doesn't work.
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My gravest secret is that I really did fake the moon landing. On Venus!
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Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.
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I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.
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Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
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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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I have a theory, too, that the best and only answer to a smear or to an honest misunderstanding of the facts is to tell the truth
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It is not enough just to be for peace. The point is, what can we do about it?
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The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.
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The recent upsurge of public concern over environmental questions reflects a belated recognition that man has been too cavalier in his relations with nature. Unless we arrest the depredations that have been inflicted so carelessly on our natural systems-which exist in an intricate set of balances-we face the prospect of ecological disaster.
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