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One thing that stands out throughout the entire year was that in South Dakota we are much more united than we are divided. Now the divided part creates news, but the united part is what moves us forward. ↗

— Mike Rounds

#dakota #divided #entire #forward #more

We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future. ↗

— Mike Rounds

#better #better future #cause #cheap #criticism

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#frauds #going #name #poet #point

Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#claims #defend #duty #esteem #gratitude

Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistake, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go off to obscure places and make movies that six people went to see. ↗

— Mickey Rourke

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The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#french #predisposed #pride #vanity

I had great admiration for the election of President Obama. I believe that the U.S. at that moment showed tremendous capacity to show that it is a great nation, and it surprised the world. It may be very difficult to be able to elect a black president in the U.S. - as it was very difficult to elect a woman president in Brazil. ↗

— Dilma Rousseff

#admiration #believe #black #brazil #capacity

And I would try and walk far enough away that people would not assume I was with him. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#attitude

That's definitely a part of who Superman is and definitely who Clark on the farm is. It translates to how calm he is. I feel like I'm pretty calm most of the time and relaxed, which gives presence to the character. ↗

— Brandon Routh

#character #clark #definitely #farm #feel

At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world. ↗

— Karl Rove

#dealing #different #fundamentally #parties #two