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"We were gradually playing larger venues and in the early days PA systems were kind of non-existent. So to play loud, we had to use louder equipment. The PA systems back then didn't mic the instruments - only the vocals."
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"A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation."

"I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it."

"But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants."

"We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community."

"There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision."

"There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure."

"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."

"A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good."
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