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“Rocks make no compromise for sex... rock climbing is not like some sports, where it is made easier for women; or sports like, say, softball, which is only baseball for soft people. On a rock, everything is equal.”
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“Just because you can't see something, doesn't mean it's not there.”
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“I was unlucky, like my country.”
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“I'm really glad that our young people missed the Depression, and missed the great big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew. Leaders who told us when things were tough, and that we would have to sacrifice, and these difficulties might last awhile. They didn't tell us things were hard for us because we were different, or isolated, or special interests. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.”
Source : Ann Richards' Address at the Democratic National Convention in Texas, www.nytimes.com. July 19, 1988. 
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“I work hard to make the poems as good as they can be, and if they're not good enough I scrap them. I find it difficult after a gap of a few years to tinker - I'm more likely to destroy.”
Source : Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk
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“President-elect John F.Kennedy said to Robert McNamara that there's no school for presidents, or, for that matter, for secretaries of defense.”
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“How can I come from a nation? How can a human being come from a concept?”
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“As an artist, it's possible to get tired of yourself.”
