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“All actions and attitudes of children are graceful because they are the luxuriant and immediate offspring of the moment - divested of affectation and free from all pretense.”
Source : Henry Fuseli (1831). “Lectures”, p.77
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“Generosity is a lovely attribute, and we only practice it when relationships are more important to us than our possessions.”
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“Arizona, our beautiful state, was built on mining. Copper is huge here, and now uranium. And then we have the federal government coming in, writing all these rules and regulations and telling us that we can't do this and we can't do that. We need concise, clear answers.”
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“I think one's character on the athletic field does not have to have anything to do with the way they are in real life.”
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“I'll let you in on something big: I'm not a white-teeth teen.”
Source : Song: White Teeth Teens, Album: Pure Heroine, 2013
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“The connections between people and land are dangerously oversimplified and mainly technological.”
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“Our problem with President Obama isn't that he's a bad person. By all accounts, he too is a good husband, and a good father - and thanks to lots of practice, a pretty good golfer.”
Source : Marco Rubio's speech at the Republican National Convention, www.politico.com. August 30, 2012.
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“The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.”