Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it. - Richard M. Nixon

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Modern idols or false gods can take such forms as clothes, homes, businesses, machines, automobiles, pleasure boats, and numerous other material deflectors.

Richard M. Nixon

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

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There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white.

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