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“Spring scarce had greener fields to show than these Of mid September; through the still warm noon The rivulets ripple forth a gladder tune Than ever in the summer; from the trees Dusk-green, and murmuring inward melodies, No leaf drops yet; only our evenings swoon In pallid skies more suddenly, and the moon Finds motionless white mists out on the leas.”
Source : Edward Dowden (1877). “Poems”
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“When external and internal forces hostile to the development of socialism try to turn the development of a given socialist country in the direction of the restoration of the capitalist system, when a threat arises to the cause of socialism in that country ... this is no longer merely a problem for that country's people, but a common problem, the concern of all socialist countries.”
Source : Speech at the 5th Congress of the Polish United Workers Party (12 November 1968), quoted in "The Rise and Fall of the Brezhnev Doctrine in Soviet Foreign Policy" by Matthew J. Ouimet, 2003.
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“Marriage is like a table with four legs - the couple, the children, the parents and the in-laws. Break any of these and the marriage crashes to the floor”
Source : "Dark Rooms: A Saga". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2002.
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“Human nature being what it is, peace must inevitably be a relative condition. The essence of life is struggle and competition, and to that extent perfect peace is an almost meaningless abstraction. Struggle and competition are stimulating, but when they degenerate into conflict it is usually both destructive and disruptive. The aim of political institutions like the United Nations is to draw the line between struggle and conflict and to make it possible for nations to stay on the right side of that line...”
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“I'm a water person; water heals.”
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“Many of the racial problems in America are caused by the fact that people are innately tribal, and politicians know how to exploit that biological fact.”
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“Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.”
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“Most guys who don't like me are either Democrats or Yankee fans.”
Source : Interview with Jim Rome, thespitter.com. March 8, 2016. 
