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“Folks, do you agree with me that we cannot afford four more years of Barack Obama?”
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“It's so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven't you?”
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“I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon law and upon courts. These are false hopes, believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there it needs no constitution, no law, no courts to save it.”
Source : "The Spirit of Liberty" (speech), New York, N.Y., 21 May 1944
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“Life is stronger than you are, even when you deny it, even when you neglect it, even when you refuse to admit it.”
Source : Anna Gavalda (2005). “Someone I Loved”, p.80, Penguin
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“What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat.”
Source : Bill Veeck, Ed Linn (2012). “Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck”, p.12, University of Chicago Press
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“Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are - rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call global challenges, which require global solidarity.”
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“My serve was there, everything was just clicking. Those are the days you dream about, especially in a final.”
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“There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.”
