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“Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls their party seems to hate President Obama and the Democrats.”
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“There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face. ... It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus , one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth ... into a liar that I call an achievement.”
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“It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have lived a large life.”
Source : "Maxine Hong Kingston embarks on new life chapter" by Julian Guthrie, www.sfgate.com. January 23, 2011. 
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“History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.”
Source : Jacob Burckhardt (1964). “Force and Freedom: Reflections on History”, New York : Pantheon Books
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“Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting.”
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“Where are the women? The women are here.”
Source : Carolyn Maloney's Speech at Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.
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“Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories...”
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“This is a new land - a land of pretension because it is new; because classes and systems have not had that time to grow here naturally. We have no aristocracy but of virtue and talent, which is the only true aristocracy, and is the old and true meaning of the term.”
