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“So actually I only got a mobile phone the day after I left being Prime Minister.”
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“[Napoleon has now] surpassed...Alexander & Caesar, not to mention the great advantage he has over them in the Cause he fights in.”
Source : "Charles James Fox" by L. G. Mitchell, London: Penguin, (p. 167), 1997.
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“All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile,”
Source : Greg Bear (2003). “Darwin's Children”, p.125, Del Rey
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“Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of order.”
Source : Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”
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“In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.”
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“Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.”
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“My mom was a sub teacher her whole life. My aunt was a teacher her whole life. So that wasn't hard to do. Performing in front of people started when I was a child. My mom ran a theatre. So we were around it. Getting up in front of people has never been an issue. So I think once you get over that part of it, I'm happy to teach anybody anything.”
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“Also, I had read a book called She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, written by a professor who had gone through transgender surgery, but it took this person well into his thirties to come to terms with the absolute necessity of having to do it.”
Source : "Girl's Power Wows Mercedes Ruehl". Interview with Matt Webb Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. June 19, 2006. 
