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Money Is A Miraculous Thing. It Is Your Personal Energy Reduced To A Portable Form And Endowed With Power You Yourself Do Not Possess. It Can Go Where You Cannot Go; Speak Languages You Cannot Speak; Lift Burdens You Cannot Touch With Your Fingers; Save Lives With Which You Cannot Deal Directly.

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Democracy Is Not Simply A Political System; It Is A Moral Movement And It Springs From Adventurous Faith In Human Possibilities.

One Never Finds Life Worth Living. One Always Has To Make It Work Living.

No Man Need Stay The Way He Is.