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"Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society."
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"Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round"."
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"Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him."
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"More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed."
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"The use of fashions in thought is to distract men from their real dangers. We direct the fashionable outcry of each generation against those vices of which it is in the least danger, and fix its approval on the virtue that is nearest the vice which we are trying to make endemic. The game is to have them all running around with fire extinguishers whenever there's a flood; and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gone under."
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"Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time."
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