Richard Milhous Nixon

The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. ... The new president and his first lady.

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Tshunka Witko

One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.

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Douglas Adams

Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.

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Charles Baudelaire

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

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Charles Krauthammer

Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to satisfy their pride and then strip it of all political power. It's a solution so perfectly elegant and preposterous that only the British could have managed it.

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You become responsible forever, for what you have tamed.

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Bertrand Russell

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.

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Austin O\'Malley

Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color blind.

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Lloyd George

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

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Roosevelt, Eleanor

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

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