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“I have been happy . . . in believing that . . . whatever follies we may be led into as to foreign nations, we shall never give up our Union, the last anchor of our hope, and that alone which is to prevent this heavenly country from becoming an arena of gladiators.”
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“I see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love.”
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“Didn't we all have dreams when we were young? But the reality of making a living took over when we had to pay our bills, rent our apartments, raise our families, and take care of others. We sacrificed our dreams, repressed them, or delegated them to the background until they were so far away that we forgot they ever existed.”
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“Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.”
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“Im lucky that its about fashion and perfume and cosmetics. If my father had owned a tire company, I dont know what I would have done.”
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“Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.”
Source : Address Upon Taking the Oath of the U.S. Presidency, delivered 9 August 1974 East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C.
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“The purpose of a system is what it does. There is after all, no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do.”
Source : "Diagnosing the system for organizations" by Stafford Beer, Wiley, (p. 99), 1985.
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“It feels good to show some courage.”
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“I became obsessed with making more and more tiny things. I think I was trying to find a way of compensating for my embarrassment at having learning difficulties: people had made me feel small so I wanted to show them how significant 'small' could be.”
Source : "The Tiny World of Willard Wigan, Nano Sculptor". Interview with Benjamin Secher, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 07, 2007. 
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“Salvation is an act of God. It is initiated by God, wrought by God, and sustained by God.”
