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"Power and glory are two dialectic energies working in common ground. Taking a glimpse of the meandering under swell of glory in the shade of power, can be very inspiring and illuminating. ['The power and the glory']"

"Wherever wind visits, there it freshens the air; wherever wisdom visits, there it freshens the mind!"

"I like George Carlin's jokes. I like his humor. He's one of my heroes, and I like what he did with talking about everyday things."

"Let them hear your voice so rarely that a simply-uttered word creates a hush of expectancy in the room."

"Furthermore, and a point I really want to make very strongly, is that this is the first Administration since Herbert Hoover not to create a net gain in jobs in the course of its Administration."

"Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily."
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"A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune."


"The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it."


"Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth."


"Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light."


"It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe God for any blessing is that they should receive that blessing often and regularly."


"As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'"


"In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us."
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