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"I said I didn't want to run for president. I didn't ask you to believe me."
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"The mugger who is arrested is back on the street before the police officer, but the person mugged may not be back on the street for a long time, if ever."
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"The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us."
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"I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in one week."
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