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The black man should seek to be, and he should be encouraged to be, the best possible black man and not the best possible imitation of a white man.

Warren G. Harding

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Warren G. Harding
Age: 57 †
Born: 1865
Born: November 2
Died: 1923
Died: August 2
29Th U.S. President
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Blooming Grove
Ohio
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There is no relationship here between Church and State. Religious liberty has its unalterable place, along with civil and human liberty, in the very foundation of the Republic. I hold it [religious intolerance] to be a menace to the very liberties which we boast and cherish.
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I was spent up. I sure grabbed that girl of mine.
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Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.
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America's present need is not heroics but healing not nostrums but normalcy not revolution but restoration.
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I hurt with the insatiate longing, until I feel that there will never be any relief until I take a long, deep, wild draught on your lips.
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Every student has the ability to be a successful learner.
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There's good in everybody. Boost. Don't knock.
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We must proceed with a full realization that no statute enacted by man can repeal the inexorable laws of nature.
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I knew that this job would be too much for me.
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In the experiences of a year of the Presidency, there has come to me no other such unwelcome impression as the manifest religious intolerance which exists among many of our citizens. I hold it to be a menace to the very liberties we boast and cherish.
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I continued with whatever 'qualified climbers' I could con into this rather unpromising venture.
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I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity.
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The success of our popular government rests wholly upon the correct interpretation of the deliberate, intelligent, dependable popular will of America.
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I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.
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I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
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Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.
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The president is the cuticle of the nail bed of America: one would think pushing back makes him stronger, yet it turns out the opposite is true.
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My once-keen analytical mind has become so dulled by endless hours of baking in the hot sun, thrashing about in tight chimneys, pulling at impossibly heavy loads, freezing my ass off.... so that now my mental state is comparable to that of a Peruvian Indian, well stoked on coca leaves.
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I expect it is very possible that I would make as good a President as a great many men who are talked of for that position.
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We need citizens who are less concerned about what their government can do for them, and more concerned about what they can do for the nation.
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