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Eve took me to teach me how to fence," Claire said. "Not so much how to fence as how to hold a sword and not drop it," Eve said. "And then I fought Oliver to a draw." Shane fluttered his hands. "Oh, and then we were all elected as ice princesses and asked to go to Disneyland!" "Laugh all you want. I'm going to look way better in full skirts than you," Eve said. ↗

— Rachel Caine

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Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars—they would think the country has gone insane. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

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In the next election, I'm voting for your mom to be the next God. ↗

— David Levithan

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Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The only thing they have to look forward to is hope. And you have to give them hope. Hope for a better world, hope for a better tomorrow, hope for a better place to come to if the pressures at home are too great. Hope that all will be all right. Without hope, not only gays, but the blacks, the seniors, the handicapped, the us'es, the us'es will give up. And if you help elect to the central committee and other offices, more gay people, that gives a green light to all who feel disenfranchised, a green light to move forward. It means hope to a nation that has given up, because if a gay person makes it, the doors are open to everyone. So if there is a message I have to give, it is that if I've found one overriding thing about my personal election, it's the fact that if a gay person can be elected, it's a green light. And you and you and you, you have to give people hope.... ↗

— Harvey Milk

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The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

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The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, Sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat, Sir, let it come! ↗

— Patrick Henry

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