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There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.

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I've written a book that hopefully will give people a sense of what [presidency] was like. I hope my friends read it and say, "Now I understand." I hope my detractors read it and say, "Well, I better understand."

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For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people.

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The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.

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You don't really stay attached to things. Life goes on, so you don't really sit around and think about how they are relevant to other people. You hope that whatever you create will be [relevant].

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I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can't ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won't stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you'd be surprised that people say, "Can I be of help?".

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I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.

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The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history.

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It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.

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While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

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So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.

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I have no desire to desire, and people become like the uncarved wood by themselves.

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I think the American people recognize that the world has shrunk. That it's interconnected. That you're not going to put that genie back in the bottle.

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There's also consumer debt, the credit card debt that burdens many of the working families in America. Yes, we talk about national debt, and we're paying a lot down. But you're fixing to hear me tell you part of the remedy for people who have got a lot of credit card debt is to make sure people get some of their own money back.

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It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.

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We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.

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When God is about to give His people the expected good, He pours out a Spirit of prayer, and it is a good sign that He is coming towards them in mercy.

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Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

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But the true threats to stability and peace are these nations that are not very transparent, that hide behind the-that don't let people in to take a look and see what they're up to. They're very kind of authoritarian regimes. The true threat is whether or not one of these people decide, peak of anger, try to hold us hostage, ourselves; the Israelis, for example, to whom we'll defend, offer our defenses; the South Koreans.

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A multitude of people and yet solitude.

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