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"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"
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"I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people."
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"We saw hundreds of programs to redevelop the central city, the neighborhoods, in the past."
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"When there were fears about the future of this nation's older cities... when a few of the cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, all eyes were focused on Chicago for contrast."
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"Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago."
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"In the housing projects, people talked of ways to reduce crime, relieve overcrowding, and they were good ideas that we plan to study, and possibly implement."
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"The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems."
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"Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline."
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"Our universities and museums are respected around the country."
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"The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs."
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"I pledge tonight to be Mayor for all of the people of this city - for one Chicago."
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"I am a Democrat. I have been one all of my life."
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