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" Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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" When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything. "

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" If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it. "

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