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“I say a few good things about Canada in the book, you know. Americans are weird, though. We refuse to look at other countries. Start with Canadians - I want to think you aren't that different, so why can't we do our incarceration policies more like Canada? If we still had a 1970 level of incarceration which was the same as Canada's then and now, I never would have written this.”
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“Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.”
Source : Casey Miller, Kate Swift (2001). “The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing”, p.4, iUniverse
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“Sir,-The Planet [Neptune] whose position you marked out actually exists. On the day on which your letter reached me, I found a star of the eighth magnitude, which was not recorded in the excellent map designed by Dr. Bremiker, containing the twenty-first hour of the collection published by the Royal Academy of Berlin. The observation of the succeeding day showed it to be the Planet of which we were in quest.”
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“If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man's skin, then the racists have been right all along.”
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“People can look to me as a teacher, but I consider myself a student of hip-hop.”
Source : "Jacob Vargas from Sons of Anarchy: Making the Most of Pain, Chaos, and Love". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 
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“Nature's never quite Sure she hasn't erred In her vague design....”
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“You think I alienate myself from society? Of course I alienate myself from society. It’s the only way I know of not being constantly reminded of all the ways I’m alienated from society.”
Source : Joshua Ferris (2014). “To Rise Again at a Decent Hour: A Novel”, p.22, Hachette UK
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“I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.”
