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"To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history."
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"They were obviously headstones of graves, though the graves themselves no longer existed as either mounds or depressions; the years had leveled all. Scattered here and there, more massive blocks showed where some pompous or ambitious monument had once flung its feeble defiance at oblivion."
"There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body."
"This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are vast numbers, not only in this Island but in every land, who will render faithful service in this war, but whose names will never be known, whose deeds will never be recorded. This is a War of the Unknown Warriors."
"The need for raising the awareness of this shameful chapter in U.S. history is more apparent than ever."
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"One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention."
"When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before."
"My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father."
"When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable."
"For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed."
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