In the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure.

Daniel C. Dennett
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  1. Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

  2. It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred...

  3. Believe you can and you're halfway there.

  4. Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

  5. In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.

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