"A number of people still think of the United States as being overwhelmingly English, Protestant, and white. This erroneous idea influences their whole outlook."
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"Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of individual human beings... their importance, their dignity... and agreed that was the basic thing that had to be accepted throughout the world."
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"Education is the cornerstone of liberty."
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"Absence makes the heart grow fonder"
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"We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule."
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"Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be."
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"The giving of love and understanding is an education in itself."
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"Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier."
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"Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas"
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"I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must not, for whatever reason, turn his back on life." Another "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
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"Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth."
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"You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give."
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"It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it."
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"Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."
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"Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?"
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"I can't tell you how to succeed, but I can tell you how to fail: Try to please everybody."
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"Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one."
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"Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time."
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"We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment."
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"Enjoy every minute you have with those you love, my dear, for no one can take joy that is past away from you. It will be there in your heart to live on when the dark days come."
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