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“The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.”
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“The United Nations exists not merely to preserve the peace but also to make change - even radical change - possible without violent upheaval. The United Nations has no vested interest in the status quo. It seeks a more secure world, a better world, a world of progress for all peoples. In the dynamic world society which is the objective of the United Nations, all peoples must have equality and equal rights.”
Source : "Some Reflections on Peace in Our Time". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1950. 
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“One of the things I'm most proud of about my career is the fact I've managed to keep options open.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“God loved us, and to prove it to us became human in order to become our brother in the flesh. He became poor, the poorest of the poor, in order to be able to include us all as his brothers (and sisters). He became a little child in order to be like children, even born, children from the slums. God has loved us and has given us all that he is and has. The Father gave the Son, the Son gave his very self, the Holy Spirit became our habitual sanctifier.... How grateful I should be to this kind Savior!”
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“The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.”
Source : Ogden Nash (1942). “Good intentions”, Little, Brown
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“You don't believe in organized religion, yet a major theme in so many of your works seems to be a quest for God.”
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“Build and they will come’ is not a strategy, it’s a prayer.”
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“Stephen A.Douglas was a risk-taker by temperament; I expect that Lincoln - Douglas debates represented another risk he just couldn't resist. He lived to regret it.”
Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
