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For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.

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There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of an American presidential campaign.

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There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

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Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.

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The gusto of one, the indignation of the other the challenge of the one party, the response of the other the eloquence and the comedy, the passion and the issues were ours-no other country can provide them.

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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

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There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.

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Don't ever let anybody teach you to think it is the curse of the world.

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The best thing for being sad,a replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, ais to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then aa to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting.

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To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

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Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

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I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.

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The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else do it wrong without comment.

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He is like a good prewar house-solidly built. They don't build them that way anymore. He's also been repainted several times.

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I class myself as a manual laborer.

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Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps - they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers.

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To know everything there is to know about one subject is the secret of happiness.

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You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.

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