"I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president."

Government, Class, President

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"I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president."

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"I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything."

Anthony Trollope, English Author

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"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."

Will Durant, American Historian

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"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom."

Jimmy Carter, American President

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"I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office."

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"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

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"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it."

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"I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government."

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"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

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"A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both."

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"In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department."

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"This led to the discovery that long chain fatty acids would remarkably stabilize serum albumin to heat denaturation, and would even reverse the denaturation by heat or concentrated urea solutions."

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"Her death contributed to my later interest in studying biochemistry, an interest that has not been fulfilled in the sense that my accomplishments remain more at the basic than the applied level."

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"An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel."

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"If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer."

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"A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement."

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"The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal."

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"I have a tendency to be lucky and make the right choices based on limited information."

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"Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures."

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"The geographical isolation and lack of television made world happenings and problems seem remote."

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