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"I seem to have no problem revealing my crush on the man who murdered Lincoln."
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"A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions."
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"When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail."
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"All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity."
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"Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel."
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"Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men."
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"Twenty-five million veterans are living among us today. These men and women selflessly set aside their civilian lives to put on the uniform and serve us."
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"Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?"
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"Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men."
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"I seem to have no problem revealing my crush on the man who murdered Lincoln."
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"Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance."
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"I seem to have no problem revealing my crush on the man who murdered Lincoln."
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"While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
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"Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know."
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"Not that I want the current president killed. I will, for the record and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean no harm, clearly state that while I am obsessed with death, I am against it."
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"I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy."
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"I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further."
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"The one time I was an actor, it happened to be in a globally dominant juggernaut. That was lucky."
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"One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes."
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"I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old."
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"Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death."
Death
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