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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. Theres nothing to do but to stand there and take it. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals, and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us. We can recover self-confidence by snubbing the dead. – E.M. Forster, Abinger Harvest

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I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy. – Shimon Peres

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So Im OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was. – Sidney Poitier

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