"All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions."

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"All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions."

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"The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small."

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"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."

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"The Republicans have a me too candidate running on a yes but platform, advised by a has been staff."

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"There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls."

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"I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."

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"To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge."

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"Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set."

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