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“It is a fair question whether the results of these things have induced among us in a large class of well-to-do people, with little muscular activity, a habit of excessive eating [particularly fats and sweets] and may be responsible for great damage to health, to say nothing of the purse.”
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“I thank God, I have been able, by adopting Principles of strict Economy and Frugality, to keep my principal, I mean my Country-Estate, unimpaired.”
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“I admit that living in Nigeria sounds romantic, but Africa isn't America by a long shot. It's a different world and a different place in time...”
Source : "Being Black In America And Being African Aren't Mutually Exclusive". "All Things Considered" with Christabel Nsiah-Buadi, www.npr.org. February 11, 2017. 
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“President Obama knows that wars are not to be entered into lightly; he knows that overseas conflicts don't only do damage in the land in which they are fought, but in the land of those who fight them, as well.”
Source : "Lincoln Chafee DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.
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“Christ Not Begotten of Holy Ghost... Christ was begotten of God. He was not born without the aid of Man, and that Man was God!”
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“Great coaches do not tell people what to think. They point people in the right direction to find the answers. This self-restraint is one of the most difficult challenges of leadership.”
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“The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the imaginary lines we draw between them, the readings we give the sky, the stories we tell.”
Source : Rebecca Solnit (2008). “Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics”, p.165, Univ of California Press
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“Wizard's Ninth Rule A contradiction can not exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole.”
