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"Being too good is apt to be uninteresting."
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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"He not busy being born is busy dying."
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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"Being is more important than doing."
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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."
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"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."
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"Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."
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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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"This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come."
Politics

"Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here."
Humor

"A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it."
Government

"Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination."
Government

"We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries."
War

"My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference."
Life

"I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell."
Truth

"It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences."
Work

"If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house."
President

"Study men, not historians."
Man
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