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“No matter where you go and what you do in America, you turn the tele on and you're confronted with violence.”
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“Are there not, dear Michael, Two points in the adventure of the diver,- One, when a beggar he prepares to plunge; One, when a prince he rises with his pearl? Festus, I plunge.”
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“God is no White Knight who charges into the world to pluck us like distressed damsels from the jaws of dragons, or diseases. God chooses to become present to and through us. It is up to us to rescue one another.”
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“The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.”
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“I have not conquered Everest, it has merely tolerated me”
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“I repose in this quiet and secluded spot not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemeteries limited as to race by charter rules, I have chosen this that I might illustrate in my death the principles which I advocated through a long life: EQUALITY OF MAN BEFORE HIS CREATOR.”
Source : Epitaph on his grave in Lancaster, Pensylvania,
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“I want to say this about my state. When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years either.”
Source : Remarks at Strom Thurmond's one-hundredth birthday party, Washington, D.C., 5 Dec. 2002.
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“I'll love you when my eyes are open, I'll love you when my eyes are gone.”
