"Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president."
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"Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice."
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"...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others."
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"All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished."
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"Life was meant to be lived."
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"The separation of church and state is extremely important to any of us who holds to the original traditions of our nation. . . . To change these traditions . . . would be harmful to our whole attitude of tolerance in the religious area. If we look at situations which have arisen in the past in Europe and other world areas, I think we will see the reason why it is wise to hold to our early traditions."
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"I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country."
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"You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it."
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"Make the most of What you have, When you have it, Where you are."
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"Do not be afraid of mistakes, provided you do not make the same one twice."
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"As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced."
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"If we fail to meet our problems here, no one else in the world will do so. If we fail, the heart goes out of progressives throughout the world."
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"A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task."
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"Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted."
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"If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people."
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"Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it."
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"We must want for others, not ourselves alone."
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"In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond."
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"Sailors have the cleanest bodies and the filthiest minds."
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"No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within."
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