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" To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed. "

Hubert H. Humphrey

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" Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society. "

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" Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true. "

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" There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people. "

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" It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped. "

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" It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. "

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