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"I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society."
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"We must stop expecting the government to play the role of national transformation why we sit down and watch."
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"Not everybody that says that you suck is a hater. There are people who suck."
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"The public thinks big, sensible, measured thoughts while people run around doing silly things."
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"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly, the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
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"Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences."
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"It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night."
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"In too many instances we have settled for a world of our own shaping that is shaping up to be in terrible shape."
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"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."
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"Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home."
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"Your water is in the bottles, and my water is in the bucket, but we are brothers? I am collecting garbage, and you are in the bed, but we are sisters? My fingers are broken, and your hands are so soft, but we are family? Your God is like an angel, and my God is like an evil, but we are equal? My stomach is empty, and your stomach is so big, but we are humans?"
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"We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune."
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"I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed."
Driving
"I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society."
Society
"You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars."
Nation
"My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father."
Family
"It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth."
Change
"There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched."
Conscience
"Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything."
Travel
"I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society."
Life
"It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself."
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