“The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.”
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“The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.”
“There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out.”
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”
“Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.”
“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
“This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”
“A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.”
“When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.”
“If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'”
“History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.”
“Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.”
“Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.”
“90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.”
“I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.”
“They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.”
“People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.”
“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.”
“History never looks like history when you are living through it.”
“It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.”
“The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.”
“It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.”
“I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.”
“People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.”