"At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since."
-Ethel Merman
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"I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes.“
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"Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own."
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"I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano."
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"Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most."
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"You do have to change things as warfare changes."
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"What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later."
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"Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it."
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