The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone.

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

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Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

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Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

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The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

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Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

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I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

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