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“Pale in her fading bowers the Summer stands,Like a new Niobe with claspèd hands,Silent above the flowers, her children lost,Slain by the arrows of the early Frost.”
Source : "Ode". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.
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“Return those shoes to the shoemaker Return this hand to my father This pillow to the pillowmaker Those slippers to the shop. That wainscot to the carpenter, But my mind my tranquil and eternal Mind Return it to whom?”
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“And the issues I think are important in Louisiana right now happen to be health care and education. And those are two areas that the federal government can play a very important role. And I think I can be effective in trying to help our state from the Washington scene.”
Source : "CNN Live Today" with Judy Woodruff, www.cnn.com. January 3, 2002. 
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“I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.”
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“Surely a large part of the zealous repression of radical protest in America has its roots in the fact that millions of men who are apparently "insiders" know how vulnerable the system is because they know how ambiguous their own attachments to it are. The slightest challenge exposes the fragile foundations of legitimacy of the state.”
Source : John H. Schaar (1981). “Legitimacy in the Modern State”, p.31, Transaction Publishers
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“A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.”
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“I absolutely hate Take That, East 17, the Spice Girls.”
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“The world believes it was built by love but reading Shah Jahan's own words on the Taj, one could say it was grief that built the Taj Mahal and it was sorrow that saw it through sixteen years till completion.”
