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 There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.  If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind. The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A little space of time before time expires; a little way of breath. Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny. Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power and is often, in point of fact, useless. Just as a leader doesn't need intelligence, a man in my job doesn't need too much of it either. The future is not in the hands of fate, but in ours. Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. No leader can be too far ahead of his followers. The flowering of geometry. Have hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow- No night but hath its morn. The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple. Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure. Power is strength and the ability to see yourself through your own eyes and not through the eyes of another. There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves. I always voted at my party's call, And I never thought of thinking for myself at all. I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth whenever I please. Though smooth be the heartless prayer, no ear in heaven will mind it; And the finest phrase falls dead, if there is no feeling behind it. When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property. 
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