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• If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
• It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining
• For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that…
• I don't have any handicap. I am all handicap.
• Many have no happier moments than those that they pass in solitude, abandoned to their own imagination, which sometimes puts sceptres in…
• I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution.…
• ...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have…
• Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements…
• If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their plaintive stories;…
• Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts…
• ...that though they may refuse to grow wise, they must inevitably grow old; ...that the proper solaces of age are not music…
• The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid…

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