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My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people an

My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me. – William Jennings Bryan

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I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God. – Ben Stein

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