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" Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves. "

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" If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you. "

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" When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. "

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" I never ask anyone else's opinion. They don't count. "

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" I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring. "

" Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it. "

" Journalism keeps you planted in the earth. "

" There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people. "

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" I'm not a serious person, and I don't like serious people. "

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" In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior. "

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