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Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty. ↗

— Ho Chi Minh

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I've never heard of any president being so close to his people. ↗

— Ho Chi Minh

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I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four. ↗

— Radha Mitchell

#always #fantasy #four #friend #going

The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#attainment #economic #man #peace #presupposes

Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult to appreciate. ↗

— Peter D. Mitchell

#colleagues #difficult #especially #find #his

I think my comparison with Shane would be a loner. I always got the impression that she wasn't scared to be alone. She enjoys it. I can relate to that. ↗

— Katherine Moennig

#always #comparison #enjoys #got #i

While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world, West, for nearly thirty years. I know that my achievement is quite ordinary. I am not the only man to seek his fortune far from home, and certainly I am not the first. Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#jhumpa-lahiri #imagination

I wanted to be an actress. I think it had a lot to do with being a kid and watching how every time my dad would stand up to talk people would applaud... that was pretty cool. ↗

— Eleanor Mondale

#applaud #being #cool #dad #every

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. ↗

— Claude Monet

#everyone #love #necessary #pretends #simply

Others too would occasionally entertain and privately express such doubts; though we all had been most solemnly warned by the cruel murder of Saint Francis. ↗

— Maria Monk

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