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"Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble."
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"There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late."

"Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true."

"I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known."

"If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger."

"We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost."

"The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."
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