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Richard M. Nixon
Age: 81 †
Born: 1913
Born: January 9
Died: 1994
Died: April 22
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They say, Gee, you look great. That means they thought you looked like hell before.
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By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.
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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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Those who hate us only win if we hate them back
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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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Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them back.
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If I had feelings, I probably wouldn’t have even survived.
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Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.
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The only place you and I disagree is with regard to the bombing. You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians, and I (in contrast) don't give a damn. I don't care.. . . I'd rather use the nuclear bomb. . . Does that bother you? I just want you to think big.
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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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We still think of air as free. But clean air is not free, and neither is clean water. The price tag on pollution control is high. Through our years of past carelessness we incurred a debt to nature, and now that debt is being called.
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I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life I have never obstructed justice.
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It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
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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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...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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If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
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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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If in order to avoid further Communist expansion in Asia and particularly in Indo-China, if in order to avoid it we must take the risk by putting American boys in, I believe that the executive branch of the government has to take the politically unpopular position of facing up to it and doing it, and I personally would support such a decision.
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I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.
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