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"People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives."
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"Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution."

"It is often said that the magnitude of a people is measured by their ability to know how to win."

"Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body."

"We ought to know that all people are not the same and so we must not expect the same attitude from all people. Different people behave differently and that is what makes different people different."

"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"

"We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves."

"Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States."

"People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else."
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"The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully."

"In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents."

"Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible."

"Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism."

"When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers."
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