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"A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus."
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"I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic."
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"Cynicism is intellectual treason."
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"Irishmen are not reserved, and the company appeared dying to be intimately acquainted."
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"That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they're relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me."
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"I can't admit of an old boy of a God who takes walks in his garden with a cane in his hand, who lodges his friends in the belly of whales, dies uttering a cry, and rises again at the end of three days; things absurd in themselves, and completely opposed, moreover, to all physical laws, which prove to us, by the way, that priests have always wallowed in turpid ignorance, in which they would fain engulf the people with them."
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"Doubt is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness."
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"I don't do metaphysics. Neither do I have the luxury to talk about my beliefs."
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"He was a sceptic, he was young, abstract, and therefore cruel."
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"Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child."
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"The believer claims to know, not just that God exists, but that his most detailed wishes are not merely knowable but actually known. Since religion drew its first breath when the species lived in utter ignorance and considerable fear, I hope I may be forgiven for declining to believe that another human being can tell me what to do, in the most intimate details of my life and mind, and to further dictate these terms as if acting as proxy for a supernatural entity."
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"It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war."
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"The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night."
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"No public man can be just a little crooked."
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"Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves."
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"We have not yet reached the goal but... we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation."
God

"America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose."
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"About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends."
Time

"New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure."
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"In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land."
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"Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die."
Man
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