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“What task could be more agreeable than to tell of the benefits conferred on us by our ancestors, so that you may get to know the achievements of those from whom you have received both the basis of your beliefs and the inspiration to conduct your life properly.”
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“What Abraham Lincoln had to face was a culturally and politically cohesive bloc of states comprising half the country, refusing to discuss even the limitation of slavery; while he had only the most feeble means of enforcement. The British and the French could do their emancipating at a distance; Lincoln had armed resistance almost literally at his doorstep.”
Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
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“Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.”
Source : Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.300, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Nothing that truly matters Can ever evaporate, Be excised, Burnt out of your soul.”
Source : Scott Hastie, “When In Love”
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“These lights, this brightness, these clusters of human hope, of wild desire—I shall take these lights in my fingers. I shall make them bright, and whether they shine or not, it is in these fingers that they shall succeed or fail.”
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“I've been getting chatted up by men ever since I was 14.”
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“My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at Thanksgiving, but it turns out it was just Jell-O with whipped cream on it. And it's delicious.”
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“Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.”
Source : Clifford D. Simak (2015). “Way Station”, p.168, Open Road Media
