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Ronald Reagan Politician, Actor
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"In case anybody asks you about my position on capital punishment, you can tell them I favor it; and if they want to know why, you can tell them this story."

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Kin Hubbard Cartoonist, Humorist
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"About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork."

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Baltasar Gracian Philosopher, Writer
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"Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders."

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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
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"The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth."

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Theodore Roosevelt Politician, Author
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"It is not only highly desirable but necessary that there should be legislation which shall carefully shield the interests of wage-workers, and which shall discriminate in favor of the honest and humane employer by removing the disadvantage under which he stands when compared with unscrupulous competitors who have no conscience and will do right only under fear of punishment."

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