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Quote by Saul Bellow
The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a h

The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize. – Saul Bellow

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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. – Saul Bellow

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Memory
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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love. – Saul Bellow

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This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in. – Theodore Roosevelt

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As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. – John F. Kennedy

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I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. – James Madison, speech, Virginia Convention, 1788

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A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the unsolved ones. – Abraham Lincoln

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Life is not fair, nor has it ever been, but the morning seems determined to dawn until it is. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Its useless to try and make rhyme or reason of it, because one guy thinks one thing and the other guy sees a whole other thing. So I try not to take them too seriously. Lately I have them screened so I only read the positive ones. – David Zucker

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Theres no mystique to acting. Its only common sense – and a bit of courage. – Bill Hunter

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For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved by a tornado. – Mary McCarthy, On the Contrary

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