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Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
Mao Tse-Tung 
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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
Barry Goldwater
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Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
George Washington
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
Tacitus
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The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
Irving R. Kaufman
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Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.
Marge Piercy
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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
William James
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It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
Henry A. Kissinger
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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
John F. Kennedy
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
James A. Baldwin
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