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Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does.
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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We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world.
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We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.
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Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.
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Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.
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Violence or the threat of violence [must] never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline.
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I was under medication when I made the decision to burn the tapes.
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Publicly, we say one thing....Actually, we do another.
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The Cold War isn't thawing it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.
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Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.
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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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Each moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and unique. But some stand out as moments of beginning, in which courses are set that shape decades or centuries.
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It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
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Any nation that decides the only way to achieve peace is through peaceful means is a nation that will soon be a piece of another nation.
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During the Prince's visit, King Timahoe will be referred to only as Timahoe, since it would be inappropriate for the Prince to be outranked by a dog.
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The man of thought who will not act is ineffective the man of action who will not think is dangerous.
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No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
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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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I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.
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I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.
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