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"My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not intellectual. Sometimes when you ask the simple questions like 'Who are you?' or 'What do you do?' you learn the most."

"I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule?"

"No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?"

"It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones."

"It's about putting the pedal to the metal and not asking any questions at all and just going for it."

"Of course I'm not a racist, but I'm certainly right wing, there's no question about that."
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"We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost."

"There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness."

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

"Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table."

"Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new."

"It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped."

"It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea."

"There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people."
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