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Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
Mao Tse-Tung 
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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
Barry Goldwater 
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Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
George Washington 
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
Tacitus 
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If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
John F. Kennedy 
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The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
Irving R. Kaufman 
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It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
Henry A. Kissinger 
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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
John F. Kennedy 
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
James A. Baldwin 
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