"I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

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"I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?"

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"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."

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"I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'"

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