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- Sir Winston Churchill The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
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There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
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If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
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-- Fred Astaire Shopping
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
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-- Helen Keller Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
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