"Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap."

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"Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap."

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"I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in "We, the people.""

Mistake, People, Decision, Court

"Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable."

Idea, Country, Principles

"Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans."

People, Americans, Common sense, Voice

"Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny."

America, Community, Destiny, Difficulty

"It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision."

Decision, Debate, Passion, Reason

"Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us."

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"If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule."

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"If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce."

Promise, Public

"I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds."

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"I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community."

Community, Confidence

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"In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world."

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"I loved all the world's mythologies."

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"Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me."

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"They say the first World Series is the one you remember most. No, no no. I guarantee you don't remember that one because the fantasy world you always dreamed about is suddenly real."

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"I should be making plans more for the next world than for this one."

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"I was from the bush, watching Greg Norman on TV, but it was a world away."

Stuart Appleby, Australian Athlete

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"Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world."

Roger Ascham, English Writer

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"I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored."

David Attenborough, British Journalist

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"Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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