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"Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race."
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"An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs."

"To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic."

"The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race."

"The stronger Hillary is, the weaker she is. The more she seems like a likely presidential winner, the more difficult the senate race becomes in New York. It's perfect."

"Everyone has said very supportive things coming out of D.C. today. We can't wait when the race has begun."

"Race relations never improve in war time; they always worsen. And it is when the boys come home the Ku Klux Klans are organized. I believe with George Schuyler that the only really feasible way to improve the general situation of the American Negro is to convince more and more whites that he is, as men go in this world, a decent fellow, and that amicable living with him is not only possible but desirable. Every threat of mass political pressure, every appeal to political mountebanks, only alarms the white brother, and so postpones the day of reasonable justice."
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"Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic."


"Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness."


"The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would."


"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."


"There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order."


"We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe."
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