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We are not asked to subscribe to any utopia or to believe in a perfect world just around the corner. We are asked to be patient with necessarily slow and groping advance on the road forward, and to be ready for each step ahead as it become practicable. We are asked to equip ourselves with courage, hope, readiness for hard work, and to cherish large and generous ideals.
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Not many people get every single thing they want plus all the things they didn't think to ask for in the same day.
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I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration.
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The night glittered brilliantly then.
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Home ownership was the fig leaf for the rise in subprime lending. But that was really about cash-out refinancings, not buying homes.
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I do enjoy playing some sports, even though none of them are organized. I enjoy football most of all.
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Amnesia may well be the highest sacrament in the great gray ritual of existence.
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Typomania is curable but not fatal. Unfortunately.
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Pledge allegiance to your principles, your family, your faith, but don't be foolish enough to pledge allegiance to a gang of thieves.
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You do not need to fly to the other side of the planet to find wilderness and beauty.
