"The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important than the episodes."
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"Without ships, we cannot live."
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"There never will be enough for everything while the world goes on. The more that is given the more there will be needed."
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"We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past."
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"A world united is better than a world divided, but a world divided is better than a world destroyed."
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"Far be it from me to paint a rosy picture of the future...But I should be failing in my duty if, on the other side, I were not to convey the true impression, that this great nation is getting into its war stride."
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"If I were the first of May, I should be ashamed of myself."
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"It was evident however that the lawyers would have to have their say....This also opened up a vista both lengthy and obscure."
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"My only consolation for the failure of the Dardanelles was that God wished things to be prolonged in order to sicken mankind of war, and that therefore He had interfered with a project that would have brought the war to a speedier conclusion."
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"In Franklin Roosevelt there died the greatest American friend we have ever known - and the greatest champion of freedom who has ever brought help and comfort from the New World to the Old."
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"I do not see any other way of realizing our hopes about World Organization in five or six days. Even the Almighty took seven."
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"There's no correlation between what the public likes and what I'm after. I'm in a different world."
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"Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse nature as a familiar servant; but it has not freed us from ourselves."
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"The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South."
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"It is a protest against the way the world has worked. (explanation of Bolshevism)"
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"There are times when words seem empty and only actions seem great. Such a time has come, and in the Providence of God America will once more have an opportunity to show the world that she was born to save mankind."
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"Then down came the lid--the day was lost, for art, at Sarajevo. World-politics stepped in, and a war was started which has not ended yet: a "war to end war." But it merely ended art. It did not end war."
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"Wow, I did so much for young black girls and girls around the world."
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"I think that my sensibilities are becoming slightly less delicate and I'm venturing out in a storytelling world."
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"When I wrote 'My Humps,' I said, 'This is the stupidest thing ever,' but in a good way. I always wondered what it must be like to be a girl, always gettin' pulled on. Maybe she's the smartest genius on the planet, but she's rackin' double Ds with a 26-inch waist and a big ol' ass and no one's ever gonna see her like that because that's the way the world is today."
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