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I'm Enormously Interested In Freedom And Retaining The Right To Have Whatever Economy We Want And To Shape It As We Want And A Having Sufficient Democracy So That The People Actually Hold Their Government In Their Own Hands.

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I'm Enormously Interested In

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I'm Enormously Interested In Freedom And Retaining The Right To Have Whatever Economy We Want And To Shape It As We Want And A Having Sufficient Democracy So That The People Actually Hold Their Government In Their Own Hands.

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One's Philosophy Is Not Best Expressed In Words; It Is Expressed In The Choices One Makes. In Stopping To Think Through The Meaning Of What I Have Learned, There Is Much That I Believe Intensely, Much I Am Unsure Of. In The Long Run, We Shape Our Lives And We Shape Ourselves. The Process Never Ends Until We Die. And, The Choices We Make Are Ultimately Our Own Responsibility.

You Must Do The Things You Think You Cannot Do.

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I Do Not Want Church Groups Controlling The Schools Of Our Country. They Must Remain Free.

Success Is Not Something That Can Be Measured Or Worn On A Watch Or Hung On A Wall. It Is Not The Esteem Of Colleagues, Or The Admiration Of The Community, Or The Appreciation Of Patients. Success Is The Certain Knowledge That You Have Become Yourself, The Person You Will Meant To Be From All Time. That Should Be Reward Enough.

It Is Our Freedom To Progress That Makes Us All Want To Live And To Go On.

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I Have Always Felt That It Was Important That Everyone Who Was A Worker Join A Labor Organization.

More People Are Ruined By Victory, I Imagine, Than Be Defeat.

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We Must Do That Which We Think We Cannot.

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