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"The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost."
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
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"It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience."
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"To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all."
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