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"All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing."
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"For a nation to be corruption free, that culture must first be created through the proclamation and propaganda of a correspondent value system."

"There's never a good year for immigration reform - that's why it's dragged on ineffectually for decades."

"Is it more important for you to know what happened in the First World War or to memorize other significant dates in history, or is it more important to learn the strategies they used for optimum leadership, success and joyful living? Don't you think schools need to teach the latter?"

"Our government, media houses, schools, must focus on creating a new culture in our society."

"Rather than the kind of change that takes what we already have and augments it, like power to our cars and speed to our computers, I believe the kind of change we need now is a change of direction."

"The unions and the auto companies have been unable to put a deal together that fundamentally restructures the industry. It needs to get done. The only way it's really going to get done is in bankruptcy court. They should have done it six months ago they should do it now."

"Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain."
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"It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale."


"If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else."


"The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made to feel. The man of complete refinement must be made to reflect."


"The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke, there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire."


"For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?"


"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."


"If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all."
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