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In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their resources; we are also denying the world the example of a free society enjoying its freedom to the fullest. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

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Dictators never invent their own opportunities. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

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The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

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When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

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And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to hold hands and stick together. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

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All I really need to know... I learned in kindergarten. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. ↗