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"Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men."

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"Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous."

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"I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies."

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"Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't."

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"When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest."

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"We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings."

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