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Theodore Roosevelt Politician, Author
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"Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shrink neither."

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Ronald Reagan Politician, Actor
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"I heard one presidential candidate say that what this country needed was a president for the nineties. I was set to run again. I thought he said a president IN his nineties."

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John F. Kennedy Politician
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"I have said that control of arms is a mission that we undertake particularly for our children and our grandchildren and that they have no lobby in Washington."

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Calvin Coolidge Politician
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"The more I study it [the Constitution], the more I have come to admire it, realizing that no other document devised by the hand of man ever brought so much progress and happiness to humanity."

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Conan O'Brien Television Host, Comedian
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"Presidential campaign getting kind of ugly, did you hear about this? Yesterday, a 27-year-old woman came for to deny rumors that she had an affair with Democratic front-runner John Kerry. The woman added, 'I would never cheat on Bill Clinton.'"

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Conan O'Brien Television Host, Comedian
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"President Obama, by the way, has set a Guinness World Record as the fastest person to get a million Twitter followers. Obama now has as many followers as the Republicans have presidential candidates."

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Ronald Reagan Politician, Actor
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"We're more than friends and neighbors and allies; we are kin, who together have built the most productive relationship between any two countries in the world today."

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Kate Chopin Author
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"Do you suppose a woman knows why she loves? Does she select? Does she say to herself, 'Go to! here is a distinguished statesman with presidential possibilities; I shall proceed to fall in love with him.' or, 'I shall set my heart upon this musician, whose fame is on every tongue?' or 'this financier, who controls the world's money markets?'"

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