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“If we’re going to have arguments, let’s have arguments — but let’s make them debates worthy of this body and worthy of this country.”
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“Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.”
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“Words cause pain, they evoke anger, they make us hate, they lead us to war. But they also make us laugh, bring us joy, and satisfying our emotional hungers.”
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“Live the present intensely and fully, do not let the past be a burden, and let the future be an incentive. Each person forges his or her own destiny.”
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“In my case, a papadaddy is a father. My paternal grandfather was called Papa by my father who was called Daddy by me.”
Source : "'Papadaddy' Clyde Edgerton advises other 'older dads'". Interview with Bob Minzesheimer, www.usatoday.com. June 12, 2013. 
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“When a sincere woman begins to dance, the seven heavens, the earth, and all creatures begin to dance.”
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“Belief is the mother of reality. Excellence is a state of mind.”
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“Happiness is in its highest degree the sister of goodness.”
Source : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2007). “The Last Man: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.166, ReadHowYouWant.com
