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The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundan

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, theres only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm. – Jimmy Carter

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Life isnt meant to be easy. Its hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess Im something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another. – Richard M. Nixon

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No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour its probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are. – P. J. ORourke

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It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history. – Malcolm Forbes

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