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What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

About Cause Dangerous Evil
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All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.

Challenging Difficult Filled Lived
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I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.
Am Figure Going Out
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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
Gain Guide Live Living
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
Believe Evil I Believe I Believe That
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Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

Dedicate Gentle Greeks Let Us
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I don't think I was ever particularly mean. I can certainly think of some idiotic exchanges I've had. I was accused of destroying pop music, like Wagner destroyed opera - a guy in Germany started ranting that at me.

Certainly Destroyed Destroying Ever
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But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?

All Our Lives Black Go God
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My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call the first child by the initials.

Call Calls Child Convention
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People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.

Am Calling Destroy Find
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I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale.
Bigger Just Musician Scale
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Life for me is about movement.

About Life Me Movement
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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
Change Enemies Motivator Nice
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I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow.

Almost Always Bit Felt
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I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

Children Come Down Far
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I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic.

Day Ethic Every Every Single Hard
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You do have to be a bit careful with your voice. It is an instrument.

Bit Careful Instrument Voice
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It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.

Activity Arena Bodies Clearly
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I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.

Good I Think Love Love Songs
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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.
Does Ends Free Life
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Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.

Cookie Deeper Fortune Funnier
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

America Answer Diversity Freedom
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

Community Criminal Deserves Enforcement
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Living a very long time would be a very scary thing.

Living Long Long Time Scary
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I have told friends and supporters who are urging me to run that I would not oppose President Johnson under any foreseeable circumstances.

Any Circumstances Foreseeable Friends
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I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.

British Felt Identity Interested
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The Internet is overrated. It's much smaller an innovation than people think it is. I don't think it's changed the way anybody makes music.

Anybody Changed Innovation Internet
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I like to be involved in politics. I like to be involved in government. I've been in politics all my life. I would like to remain in government. I don't think that's so sinister.

All My Life Been Government Involved
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I've had an unusual life. A life far removed from most people's experience.

Experience Far Had Life
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Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.

Ask Dream I Dream Men
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I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

About Anything Know Line
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If I get to be president, what can I do anyway? With Congress and the press, what chance do I have to make basic changes?

Anyway Basic Chance Changes
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When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

Always Believing Books Boy
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Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men's lives.

Decisions Freedom Freedom Of Speech Goes
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Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
Ambition Dream Engine A
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Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Adversity Hard Hundred Man
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Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.'

Apply Boston Even Father
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Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Else Every Every Time Getting
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When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.
Boy Driving Got High
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Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort.

Beings Between Cause Dedicated
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I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.

Along Electrician Got Line
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Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning.

Big Came Got Had
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No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the essential role a newspaper can play in its community.

About Community Democratic Democratic Society
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They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.

Broke Loose Me Put
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I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.

Allen Did Ed Sullivan Four
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When companies get together secretly to fix prices and attempt to eliminate competition, honest businessmen suffer. I think this is wrong.

Attempt Businessmen Companies Competition
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Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.
Hollywood Later Make Me
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We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, what is permitted and what is prohibited. We know that it is law which enables men to live together, that creates order out of chaos. We know that law is the glue that holds civilization together.

Cannot Chaos Civilization Creates
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The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.

Again Army Blues First
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The right to vote is the easiest of all rights to grant.

Easiest Grant Right Rights
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