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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exerti

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. – Edgar Allan Poe

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No human race is superior no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. – Elie Wiesel

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The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations. – Martin Van Buren

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Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington. – John Boehner

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It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice. – Cat Stevens

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