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What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

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The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through America, and in their minds everything on the mall would be American. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#america #american #could #effort #everything

I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange location in history, which are minstrel shows. ↗

— Leon Redbone

#comes #consider #different #extract #history

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin. ↗

— Noel Redding

#mandolin #nine #onto #playing #school

I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise. ↗

— Noel Redding

#best #did #had #i #likewise

Well, I'd had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that. ↗

— Noel Redding

#fat #had #i #mattress #outlet

I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend. ↗