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When President Bush invaded Iraq after 9
11 it was like Truman invading Mexico after Pearl Harbor.

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The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.

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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

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He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

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If you cannot convince them, confuse them.

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I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

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A special Providence protects fools, drunkards, small children and the United States of America.

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Violence is the diplomacy of the incompetent.

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I know of no way to judge the future but by the past.

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant perhaps the one is as painful as the other.

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