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To love at all is to be vulnerable.

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The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure.

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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

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The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.

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The price of greatness is responsibility.

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America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.

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If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair; and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

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The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush against goodness for a season.

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