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• I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
• I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this…
• A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
• Loneliness is a strange gift.
• Life is always rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.
• In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper…
• A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding for it, and you can't…
• Diplomacy is the lowest form of politeness because it misquotes the greatest number of people. A nation, like an individual, if it…
• Not even a collapsing world looks dark to a man who is about to make his fortune.
• Security, for me, took a tumble not when I read that there were Communists in Hollywood but when I read your editorial…
• We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny. . . . The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in…
• Write about it by day and dream about it by night.

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