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Jon Meacham Richard M. Nixon Karl Marx David Attenborough Henry Louis Gates John F. Kennedy James Buchan Camille Paglia
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, …

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France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid t…
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appre…
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act an…
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

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