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We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustration and poverty, we must expect to pay the price.

Robert Kennedy

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I reject the notion that America is in a well-deserved decline, that she and her citizens are unexceptional. I do not believe America is the problem in the world. I believe America is the solution to the world's problems.

Rush Limbaugh

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The fact is that Iran doesn't want to see the Taliban come back any more than do most Afghan citizens.

David Petraeus

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If today is your typical day in America, 80 of our fellow citizens will die from gunfire. In the last two weeks, more Americans have died from gunfire here at home in the United States than in the entire war in Iraq since it started.

Michael D. Barnes

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People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.

Daley Thompson

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We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

William Penn

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We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens.

Bob Ehrlich

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The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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The curiosity of the human mind is essential if you want citizens who think rather than accept the first nonsense they come to.

Francois Englert

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There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.

Gail Simmons

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The idea of the U.S. as a corporation is more than a thought experiment. It's a way to reposition our approach to long-term problems. What would U.S.A. Inc. be worth? Who would want to buy its shares?

Mary Meeker

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A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.

Samuel Richardson

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Executive power in any nation arguably has more in common with executive power in another country than with the citizens it should serve.

Nick Harkaway

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We welcome the scrutiny of the world - because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.

Barack Obama

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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

Albert Camus

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America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago.

Steve Buyer

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We just want to make sure the best candidates get the attention they deserve.

Terry Sanford

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Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.

Gabrielle Union

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Herbs deserve to be used much more liberally.

Yotam Ottolenghi

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