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"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
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To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
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-- Margaret Fairless Barber >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
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The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
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? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
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genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
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