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There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

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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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Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

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There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

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We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

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If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

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Nature provides exceptions to every rule. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

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It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

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Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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