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1915; January 9th 1915; November 1915; November 9th 1915; the United States; …
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person, ambassador, politician, author, Scorpio person, …
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"Working in an underdeveloped land for two or three years, the volunteer will often find that his work is routine and full of frustration."; "When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa."; "We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease."; "There is an alternative to war. It has been with us forever."; "The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world."; …"The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity."; "The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should."; "Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices."; "Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education."; "My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities."; "My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another."; "Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting."; "Jews have suffered persecution from misguided Christians who tortured the Jews for their part in killing Christ. These Christians forgot that Christ died because of the sins of all men."; "It is well to be prepared for life as it is, but it is better to be prepared to make life better than it is."; "It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can."; "In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems."; "If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society."; "I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at apost in Germany than it will be with us."; "I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team."; "I hate goofballs."; "I do not think that the educational program of our schools should be determined by what the community thinks it needs."; "I can remember at college, living on 30-cent meals."; "He who knows all things and believes nothing is damned."; "Does politics have to be injected into everything?"; "Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?"; "Do the job first. Worry about the clearance later."; "Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them."; "Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight."; "A line has to be drawn somewhere between what is essential and what is peripheral."
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