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“Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.”— Edsger Dijkstra
“A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.”— Harry S. Truman
“Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.”— Gore Vidal
“If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.”— John F. Kennedy
“A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”— Muhammad Ali
“The man who views the world at 50 the same he did at 20 has wasted thirty years of his life.”— Muhammad Ali
“Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.”— Dalai Lama
“There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”— Ernest Hemingway
“I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.”— Muhammad Ali
“In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.”— Buddha