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He showed that fame may be won and what services be rendered by a

He showed that fame may be won and what services be rendered by a plain son of the people unaided by any gifts of fortune. – James Bryce

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The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. – James Bryce

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The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men. – James Bryce

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Government
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Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. – James Bryce

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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. – Dwight D. Eisenhower, first inaugural address, 20 January 1953

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In him was vindicated the greatness of real goodness and the goodness of real greatness. – Phillips Brooks

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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. – Thomas Jefferson

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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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The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the Watchtower itch: you gotta be with us, man, or youre out, youre dead. This pitch is a continual and seeming MUST with those who use the stuff. Its no wonder they keep getting busted. – Charles Bukowski

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Whether he likes it or not, a man’s character is stripped at the poker table; if the other players read him better than he does, he has only himself to blame. Unless he is both able and prepared to see himself as others do, flaws and all, he will be a loser in cards, as in life. – Anthony Holden

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