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If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

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The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

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Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

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When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by it you could get a picture. So I had to make a statue that could stand by the telly. ↗

— Beryl Bainbridge

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Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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