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The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort o

The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul. – John Quincy Adams

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There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite. – Abraham Lincoln

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I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours. – John F. Kennedy

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Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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His life was a hymn in praise of honor, uprightness, and patriotism. – Orestes Ferrara

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People intoxicate themselves with work so they wont see how they really are. – Aldous Huxley

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I fear some of our leaders today have lost the courage to stand up. What we have now are politicians. They wont offer real plans, and only stand up when they want to blame someone else. – Susana Martinez

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There are plenty of good maxims in the world; we fail only in applying them. – Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), translated from the French by an unnamed transl

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