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“Ronald Reagan memorably combined intimacy with distance.”
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“There's a level of shame attached to our history, and we need to replace that shame with pride and own our history. These are our superheroes. These are our people, and I would love to see us own this side of our history with pride.”
Source : "Jurnee Smollett-Bell Gets Deep About Underground, a Slave Narrative That Will Make You Proud to Be Black". Interview with Ronda Racha Penrice, www.theroot.com. March 9, 2016. 
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“Did you see my ninja move?That was fast, right?" "You are not a ninja, Shane." "I've watched all the movies. I just haven't gotten the certificate from the correspondence course yet.”
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“Obviously the fans are very important to me, in fact they mean everything to me and they are the people I try to please when I play.”
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“Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think.”
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“Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.”
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“The Aristocratic Institutions of England [had] acted much like the Slavery Institutions of America... [in] demoralis[ing] large classes outside their own special boundaries... [in producing] a long habit of submission... [and in] enfeebl[ing] by corrupting those who should assail them.”
Source : Letter to Richard Congrieve on November 24, 1866. "1867 Disraeli, Gladstone and Revolution". Book by Maurice Cowling, p. 25, 1967.
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“I hesitate to say what the functions of the modern journalist may be, but I imagine that they do not exclude the intelligent anticipation of the facts even before they occur.”
Source : 1898 House of Commons, 29 Mar.
