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"Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to youth; and with your permission I shall consider you as representing here not only the academic youth of Sweden nor even of Europe but also of America."
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"America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few."
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"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."
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"America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man."
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"I apologize to coalition forces and all the families, detainees, the families, America and all the soldiers."
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"To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing."
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"I went to America on holiday when I was 17 and, before I knew it, I'd been signed up by an agency and had these obligations I didn't understand, but which I couldn't say no to. This industry chose me. But I did choose to make it fulfilling."
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"Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's not. it's the United States of America."
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"Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America."
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"I don't cry America. I do not cry. That was a once in a lifetime event. I do not cry, do you understand? I don't cry, okay?"
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"An asylum for the sane would be empty in America."
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"Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure."
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"But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity."
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"In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet."
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"I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students."
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"It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life."
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"Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to youth; and with your permission I shall consider you as representing here not only the academic youth of Sweden nor even of Europe but also of America."
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"Thanking you once more, I want to wish you the best of luck for your future life and to conclude by saying to you: Dream your dreams and may they come true!"
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"It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human."
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