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Quote by Mike Wallace
My parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston,

My parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelts backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left. – Mike Wallace

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As I approach my 88th birthday, its become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, arent quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing. – Mike Wallace

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Even a liberal reporter is a patriot, wants the best for this country. And people, your fair and balanced friends at Fox, dont fully understand that. – Mike Wallace

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I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture. – Robert Capa

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Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery. – Frank Herbert

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When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world. – Eliot Spitzer

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Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society. – Delphine de Girardin

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The Russians are turning east to the Chinese – to the Europeans surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China would shift from being based in Marx and Lenin to being based in oil and gas. – Daniel Yergin

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If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint…. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting. – Henry David Thoreau

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From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned. – Emile Durkheim

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