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My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year, and I always won. I'm an only child, and I could count on my mother's vote.

Actually Always Child Could
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Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.

America Bracket Decade Imagine
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I don't want my kids to grow up with no father like I did. I came to the conclusion a while ago that you can work until midnight and not be finished or you can work until 6 or 7 and not be finished. I decided I'd rather work until 6 or 7.

Came Conclusion Decided Father
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The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

About Concentrated Fact Find
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I think Americans are not guilty for 9/11; I think President Bush is not guilty for 9/11.

American Bush Guilty I Think
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My father joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did.

Alabama Because Crow Democrats
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I am a professor at Stanford; I am a happy professor at Stanford. That's where I'm staying.

Am Happy I Am Professor
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Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.

Baseball Baseball Game Clock Explained
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Among Cannot Corrupt Exist
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The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

Africa America Ancestors Been
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Fame Great Great Souls Instinct
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.

Ambition Makes More Need
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Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.

Eloquence Same Speak Talking
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To fight for one's country, to offer one's very life to promote the well being of the United States, is truly a noble undertaking. But so is the vigilance of the citizen who carefully examines our leaders to see if political problems are being solved by wars simply because this seems to be the easiest solution

Citizen Country Fight Leaders Life
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We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.

Citizens Colors Country Dependent
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What we've discovered is that Americans seem to love our saucy humor.

American Discovered Humor Love
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If you can mix glamor and gags, then you can catch the audience twice over.

Audience Catch Mix Over
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I'm single. I don't have a family. I certainly don't have to work. I don't want to be the richest man in the cemetery.

Cemetery Certainly Family Man
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It is time we had democratic socialism for working families, not just Wall Street billionaires.

Billionaires Democratic Families Socialism
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.

Believes Difficult Necessarily True
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Before Social Security existed, about half of America's senior citizens lived in poverty.

America Before Citizens Existed
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I remember one time being told I could not play in a basketball game at the College of William and Mary because I was black, even though I was playing with a United States Army team.

Army Basketball Because Being
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We need leadership in this country, which will improve the lives of working families, the children, the elderly, the sick and the poor. We need leadership which brings our people together and makes us stronger.

Brings Children Country Elderly
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I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future.

Agents Cause Chemical Damage
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I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.

Happy Both Children Get
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These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment.

Believe Care Cases Environment
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I could really care less about what they think about me, but at the same time, I do have something to prove.

Care Could Less Prove
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Well, in order to become a grown man, in order to become significant in my family and significant in my children's life, I had to learn my lessons.

Become Children Family Grown
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There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.

Between Dealing Distinct Easily
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On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.

Family Following Give Healthy
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Members of Congress must live according to the same laws as everyone else.

According Congress Else Everyone
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As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language.

American Become Dream Embrace
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My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.

Angels Brother Cause Death
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I've got a general callout with the Caribbean world in which I'm interested in helping in any way to get their well-written good stories out to the rest of the world. I am really interested in helping those stories get to a completion and public viewing.

Caribbean Completion General Good
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The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.

Accord Arm Came Day
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When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.

Catalogue Die Ever Head
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When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

Act Am Character Goes
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I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.

American American Society Dealing I Think
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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

Creator Equity Governs Humanity
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Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.

About Feeling Feeling Good Glamour
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Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

Beings Civilized Civilized Nations Earth
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How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

Frame Hasty How Judgment
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He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.

Bread Currency He Labor
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We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.

Agents People Power Same
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I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

American Born Die I Was Born
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Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

Among Disagree Only Quarrel
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On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

Among Diffusion Education Free
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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Always America Be Brave Before
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I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

Am Fact I Am Invented
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When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Ambition Begins Ends Happiness
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