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"Heaven's currency is friendship."

"To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell."

"If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation."

"We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes."
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"The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line to the presidency. I saw no chance that he would resign first, then take his chances on trial, conviction, and jail."

"For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the people can be required to serve. For us the word is only a label for the arrangements by which we the people delegate to some among us responsibility for things that concern us in common."

"Mr. President, I believe your real problem is that you have somehow been unable to realize that you have won, not only won, but been re-elected by a tremendous margin."

"The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had a long succession of responsibilities in large, complex government departments."
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