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"Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House."
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"I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away."
Death
"I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode."
Life
"I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way."
People
"When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him."
Sex
"Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage."
Marriage
"Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It's OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat."
Hair
"One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more."
People
"I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was."
Blame
"If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers."
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"I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories."
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"It is the prime responsibility of every citizen to feel that his country is free and to defend its freedom is his duty."
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"There are only three types of citizenship: hero, villain, nobody."
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"The most obvious question of every citizen who is responsible to his nation's transformation is, "What can I do in this situation?"
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"Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far."
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"A responsible citizen is the one that sees something wrong in the society, something he is not satisfied with or that he cannot agree with and responds not by blaming the government or leaders. But by designing ways and means of bringing a lasting solution to the issues at hand."
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"Nevertheless, (Jefferson) believed that the habit of skepticism is an essential prerequisite for responsible citizenship. He argued that the cost of education is trivial compared to the cost of ignorance, of leaving government to the wolves. He taught that the country is safe only when the people rule."
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"Human beings are by nature political animals."
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"We are responsible for our country before God."
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"No other country on earth could have provided such tremendous opportunities and we should never take the privilege of our citizenship for granted."
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"Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind."
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