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“Gentlemen, why do you not laugh? With the fearful strain that is upon me day and night, if I did not laugh, I should die. ”
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Abraham Lincoln
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“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
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Sigmund Freud
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“I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.”
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Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
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“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
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Winston S. Churchill
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“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
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Ayn Rand
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“If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.”
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Jimmy Carter
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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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Albert Einstein
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