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Barbara Lewis Activist, Educator
Running

"I'll be yours until the stars fall from the sky, yours until the rivers run dry. In other words, until the day I day."

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Ed Rollins Political Consultant
Running

"I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon's re-election campaign in California and became part of his administration at the start of his second term."

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Baron Davis Professional Athlete
Running

"People compare me to Isiah Thomas because of my quickness and change-of-direction, the way I change speeds and run the team."

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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
Running

"The enthusiastic uprising of the people in our cause, is our great reliance; and we can not safely give it any check, even thoughit overflows, and runs in channels not laid down in any chart."

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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
Running

"Senator Douglas holds, we know, that a man may rightfully be wiser today than he was yesterday - that he may rightfully change when he finds himself wrong. But can we, for that reason, run ahead, and infer that he will make any particular change, of which he, himself, has given no intimation?"

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Running

"Fortunate indeed are those in which there is combined a little good and a little bad, a little knowledge of many things outside their own callings, a capacity for love and a capacity for hate, for such as these can look with tolerance upon all, unbiased by the egotism of him whose head is so heavy on one side that all his brains run to that point."

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Edward de Bono Psychologist
Running

"The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt."

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Edward Kennedy Politician
Running

"Were I to make the announcement and to run, the reasons I would run is because I have a great belief in this country [America]. ... There's more natural resources than any nation in the world; the greatest education population in the world; the greatest technology of any country in the world; the greatest capacity for innovation in the world; and the greatest political system in the world."

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Elbert Hubbard Writer, Publisher
Running

"The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life."

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Eleanor Roosevelt Political Activist, Diplomat
Running

"In the long run there is no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely and then act boldly."

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Eleanor Roosevelt Political Activist, Diplomat
Running

"The film industry is a great industry, with infinite possibilities for good and bad. Its primary purpose is to entertain people. On the side, it can do many other things. It can popularize certain ideals, it can make education palatable. But in the long run, the judge who decides whether what it does is good or bad is the man or woman who attends the movies."

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Eleanor Roosevelt Political Activist, Diplomat
Running

"Each of us has... all the time there is. Those years, weeks, hours, are the sands in the glass running swiftly away. To let them drift through our fingers is tragic waste. To use them to the hilt, making them count for something, is the beginning of wisdom."

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Eleanor Roosevelt Political Activist, Diplomat
Running

"Our children should learn the general framework of their government and then they should know where they come in contact with the government, where it touches their daily lives and where their influence is exerted on the government. It must not be a distant thing, someone else's business, but they must see how every cog in the wheel of a democracy is important and bears its share of responsibility for the smooth running of the entire machine."

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Elie Wiesel Writer, Holocaust Survivor
Running

"Today again the teacher is the important thing, but on the other hand anti-Semitism is growing today. No doubt about it. All over the world, especially in Europe, and it's true they begin with anti-Israeli attitudes and then it's so strong that it runs over and becomes anti-Semitic."

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Eliot Spitzer Politician
Running

"We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City. The application of this concept to the financial sector could solve our need for revenue, bring some sanity back into the financial sector, and give us a way to raise the revenue we need to run the government in a fiscally responsible way."

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