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"You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand."
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"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
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"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."
"I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after."
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"One of the problems that we are confronted with is, when we decide to buy or build a home, we don't get a clear picture of what closing costs will be of that home."
"After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years."
"We believe that, by the time that we leave office, it will be institutionalized, and these programs will be addressing the needs and curing the problem that we set out to do."
"And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business."
"The other part of outsourcing is this: it simply says where the work can be done outside better than it can be done inside, we should do it."
"And I always like to stress, it's not a quota, not a set-aside, it's not about race, it's about giving opportunities to demonstrate their abilities to do work with the Federal Government."
"As you know, in this country Anglo-Americans are about 75 to 76 percent home ownership in this country, where Hispanics, African Americans are less than 50 percent."
"And I'm the kind of manager that doesn't believe that you micro-manage professionals. They should understand their responsibility and carry out those responsibility."
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