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Maybe Republicans should get nukes and the president [Barack Obama] will talk to them.

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How defeated and restless the child that is not doing something in which it sees a purpose, a meaning! It is by its self-directed activity that the child, as years pass, finds its work, the thing it wants to do and for which it finally is willing to deny itself pleasure, ease, even sleep and comfort.

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A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.

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We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce. As a consequence business success is sanctified, and, practically, any methods which achieve it are justified by a larger and larger class.

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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

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My final comment is that I still believe this man [John D. Rockefeller] is corrupt and he used unfair ways to become wealthy, all he cared about was his money and wasn't considered.

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. . . the economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.

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