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Yet somehow our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.: Pearl S. Buck, My Several Worlds, 1954
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To hold the same views at forty as we did at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), Crabbed Age and Youth, 1874
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We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.: Henry John Temple Palmerston, Remarks in the House of Commons, March 1, 1848
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The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through.: Alexis De Tocqueville (1805 - 1859), Democracy in America, 1835
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Inaugural Adress, January 20, 1961
For the American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), The Illiterate Digest, 1924
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The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything rises out of it and is absorbed back into it.: Alexis De Tocqueville (1805 - 1859), Democracy in America, 1835
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The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explination.: Hilton Kramer, The New York Times art critic, in the late 1960
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What counts now is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads us is less important than what leads us-what convictions, what courage, what faith-win or lose. A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principal can.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Welcoming address before the Democratic national convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952
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I do think imperfection's underrated.: Helena Bonham Carter
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