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"Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's still 65."
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"I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving."
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"A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green."
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"Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth."
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"Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time."
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"The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence."
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"Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's still 65."
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"Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set."
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"Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments."
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"The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers."
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"I went to watch my father at Silverstone in the early 1950s, and I've still got the car he was in."
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"I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the pain they would inflict on others to carry out those purposes. Because the purposes were so good, they would justify this pain we were inflicting on other people."
People
"Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent."
Home
"Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's still 65."
Car
"I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war."
War
"We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we were Americans."
Thought
"The destruction of civilian hamlets, the killing and the wounding of civilians, became vastly greater than it had been before, and it was very upsetting; but I still couldn't bring myself to understand that the policy itself was wrong."
Policy
"We wanted to see this country win the war just as much as those advisors did. We felt we would help to do that by reporting the truth. And so there was the moral outrage over this general and the ambassador in Saigon who kept denying the truth we would see."
War
"World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century."
Leadership
"You remember all those phrases about how "these people" - Asians - don't value human life like we do. Well if you spend any time around them, you discover that they love their children just as much as we love ours. That is certainly true of the Vietnamese."
Life
"People talked to me in a way I think they would not have talked to somebody who hadn't shared the experience; they gave me their papers, they gave me their diaries. I found people constantly opening up to me. And I think they did because I had shared that experience with them."
Experience
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