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"The Europeans had made two promises to the United States if Marshall Plan help was forthcoming. The first promise was maximum self-help on the part of every country; and second, maximum mutual aid."
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"I really don't feel any strong allegiance to any country."
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"In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment."
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"If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera."
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"Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally."
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"When I started I'd fly across the country to do a gig for a hundred bucks."
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"From what I can see, too many kids don't learn pride in their country anymore."
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"This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing marijuana were instead spent by law enforcement on protection from real crime, as opposed to victimless crime."
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"In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country."
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"This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies."
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"To them, the real United States is just flyover country."
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"The Europeans had made two promises to the United States if Marshall Plan help was forthcoming. The first promise was maximum self-help on the part of every country; and second, maximum mutual aid."
Country
"The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive work. In a sense, the mission chiefs were given the opportunity to help act as architects for the new Europe that was envisioned."
Work
"I would like to say that no man ever was given finer cooperation than that given me by President Truman."
Cooperation
"As far as we were concerned, we were operators, we were administrators. I don't ever recall going to Dean Acheson and asking for any counsel or advice on administration, but I had the greatest respect for him, as I have today."
Advice
"At the time it seriously troubled me, but in drafting me as Marshall Plan Administrator, President Truman did as great a favor for me as one man can do for another. It opened my eyes to many things of which I was totally unaware and it was the beginning of my real education."
Education
"But I felt that most of us in the world today gave priority to our personal interests."
Today
"There are times we are givers, but others time we have to let others give to us."
Time
"If he had listened to some of his advisors and had tried to make the Marshall Plan a political dumping ground for unqualified politicians, it couldn't have been a success."
Success
"Among the reasons for this was the fact that the U.S.A. is one mass market. It is only when you have a mass market that large-scale manufacturing which involves very substantial expenditures can be justified."
Fact
"The full potential of labor can be utilized only if there is mobility in labor."
Labor
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