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The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future. ↗

— Henry Lawson

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We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us. ↗

— Henry Lawson

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In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

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But I can't take responsibility for criminal conduct of somebody inside the company. ↗

— Kenneth Lay

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I have to take responsibility for anything that happened within its businesses. ↗

— Kenneth Lay

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I take full responsibility for what happened at Enron. But saying that, I know in my mind that I did nothing criminal. ↗

— Kenneth Lay

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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats. ↗

— Irving Layton

#best #genius #i #i am #keats

You're always compared to someone, especially when you're a French actress. ↗

— Virginie LeDoyen

#always #compared #especially #french #someone

I say let's respond as best we can to the victims and their families. ↗

— William P. Leahy

#families #i #respond #say #their

You know how the church has been hit so hard by the sexual misconduct by clergy, and what's that's done to Catholics, especially here in Boston but elsewhere as well. ↗

— William P. Leahy

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