"I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people."

People, Opportunity, Country, Talking

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"I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people."

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"Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that."

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"Because one of the benefits of getting older, I guess-there are very few benefits, really - most of them are a pain in the butt. People depend on me more; they believe in me more, they think I'm good."

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"I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on."

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"There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders."

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"Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week."

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"I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers."

Max Beckmann, German Artist

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"Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis."

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"It's hard to build a brand, competitively, and tell people what you do as well."

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"There are people out there who want me to fail, who want Jude to fail, who want our relationship to fail."

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"The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none."

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"Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution."

People, Revolution, Historians, Will

"When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice."

Virtue, Liberty, Vice

"By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire."

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"The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia."

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"Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II."

War, Countries, World, Worldwar

"It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them."

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"I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas."

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"There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea."

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"When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling."

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"The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists."

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