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"I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it."
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."
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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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"I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting."
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"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us."
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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
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"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."
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"Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life."
Faith
"The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character."
Character
"I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day."
Politics
"Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there."
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"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."
Government
"I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it."
Life
"A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it."
Man
"Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam."
Success
"Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact."
Education
"I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard."
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