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Jesus this song you wrote The words are sticking in my throat Peace on Earth Hear it every Christmas time But hope and history won't rhyme So what's it worth? This peace on Earth

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Richard M. Nixon
Age: 81 †
Born: 1913
Born: January 9
Died: 1994
Died: April 22
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Anybody who wants to be an ambassador, wants to pay at least $250,000.
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My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it.
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I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.
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If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?
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...we must strike a balance so that the protection of our irreplaceable heritage becomes as important as its use. The price of economic growth need not and will not be deterioration in the quality of our lives and our surroundings.
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Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.
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The successful leader does not talk down to people. He lifts them up.
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I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got.
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I don't give a damn about the civilians.
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So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice because over the years you have become fascinated by how close you can walk without losing your balance.
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Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.
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I'm not going to be the first American president to lose a war.
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... Member Countries shall take necessary action and/or shall establish negotiations, individually or in groups, with the oil companies with a view to adopting ways and means to offset any adverse effects on the per barrel real income of Member Countries resulting from the international monetary developments as of 15th August 1971.
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Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
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By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.
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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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For among nations - as within nations - the soundest unity is that which respects diversity, and the strongest cohesion is that which rejects coercion.
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I always remember that whatever I have done in the past or may do in the future, Duke University is responsible in one way or another.
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Screw State! State's always on the side of the blacks. The hell with them!
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Those who hate us only win if we hate them back
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