"In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques."

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"In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques."

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"The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence."

Life

"I like what I'm doing. Today at 88, I wouldn't think of quitting because I can't think of anything else I would rather do. And now with my lectures on all the charitable things that I do, just as you do, I think that what I'm doing matters."

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"Yes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out well."

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"I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me."

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"I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing."

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"One of the wonderful things about going to a small college is you can get into everything."

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"My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another."

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