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A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy. ↗

— Edward P. Morgan

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Our enemy is motivated by hatred and will not stop planning more plots against until they are ultimately defeated. Today was an important and necessary victory in the war, but there is a long road ahead. We must remain committed if we are to succeed and protect our liberty. ↗

— Timothy Murphy

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I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities. ↗

— William Labov

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The people of Maine were tired of being in debt and tired of being overtaxed. ↗

— Paul LePage

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Promoting the interaction of orders remains one of the most difficult, but crucially important, challenges we face concerning our national market system. ↗

— Arthur Levitt

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I think that if you can achieve a balance, then you appease a lot of yourself and your career and what it takes to maintain in this business for a while. ↗

— Ray Liotta

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I'm far too low maintenance to ever spend more than five minutes getting ready to go out. ↗

— Sienna Miller

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So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations. ↗

— Thomas Lynch

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I guess the biggest thing is that I committed to a spiritual center before I do anything else. And I put some daily things in my life into practice and I maintain that, to make sure that I don't drop the ball. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

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My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it. ↗

— Lord Melbourne

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