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“Was it your strategy to just take as much punishment as you could and then hope he would fall down?”
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“Every war is its own excuse. That's why they're all surrounded with ideals. That's why they're all crusades.”
Source : Karl Shapiro (1964). “the Bourgeois Poet”
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“As for the flood carving Grand Canyon, why don't they explain to us why the top of the Canyon is 4,000ft higher than where the river (Colorado River) enters the canyon? Why don't they explain to us how rivers miraculously flowed up-hill for millions of years to finally cut the groove deep enough so they could flow downhill?”
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“The symbol of the lion, throughout history, throughout cultures, is one pure, radiant symbol and that is leadership, kingship”
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“I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate. But to feel that there was feeling denied me, that the very breath of life itself was beyond my reach, that more than anything else hurt, wounded me. I had a new hunger.”
Source : Richard Wright (1998). “Black Boy”, Turtleback
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“I have always been an outstanding football player, I have always had uncanny abilities, great arm strength, an immense ability to play the game from a quarterback standpoint. The problem was that I wasn't given the liberty to do certain things when I was young.”
Source : "The Impossible, Inevitable Redemption of Michael Vick" by Will Leitch, www.gq.com. August 18, 2011. 
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“Apathy is a rational reaction to a system that no longer represents, hears or addresses the vast majority of people.”
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“I keep my politics a little closer to me than others do.”
