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Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if

Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didnt work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four terms and a World War, it probably wont work for you either. – Jon Meacham

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If a person is homosexual by nature – that is, if ones sexuality is as intrinsic a part of ones identity as gender or skin color – then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow. – Jon Meacham

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Nature
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The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness. – Jon Meacham

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History
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In America, now, let us – Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever – fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love ones enemies. A tall order, that – perhaps the tallest of all. – Jon Meacham

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There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war. – Miguel de Cervantes

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War

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills. – Immanuel Kant

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I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the suns energy. If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago. – George Porter

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War

Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. – Daryn Kagan

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Theres no wrong way to experience a film. – Vera Farmiga

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I do actually dabble in a bit of poetry! And Im yet to pen a script, but it is something that Ive been telling myself I want to do. – Luke Treadaway

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In my old age, Ill be in L.A. – David Hockney

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People who dont know me have opinions about me. Thats the part thats very hurtful. Because how do you form an opinion about somebody if youve never met them or spent any time with them? So its all based upon hearsay or things that theyve read. – Rick Barry

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