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James A. Michener

"For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find."

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"For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find."

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"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."

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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

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