Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

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I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.

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He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.

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Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.

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I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.

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He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.

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Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

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The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

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The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

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