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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

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I spend time on campaign creation and implementation, anything from sitting down with the agency or with creative companies. I also meet with supporters. We've been really lucky to have various high-profile supporters.

There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy.

The biggest trade that Germany and Britain had was with each other, in the prewar period; I think I'm right in that. Two highly industrialized nations had the most trade with each other, and it wasn't tariff policies alone that made trade relations better for both of them.

But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War.

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.

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