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The jawbone of an ass is just as dangerous a weapon today as in Sampson's time.
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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The Jews are irreligious, atheistic, immoral bunch of bastards.
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While might certainly does not make right, neither does right by itself make might.
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You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this all while not appearing to.
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Mr. Stevenson has a degree alright-a PhD from the Acheson College of Cowardly Communist Containment.
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Any culture which can put a man on the Moon is capable of gathering all the nations of the earth in peace, justice and concord.
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