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The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

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I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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Altho that is so, Ireland has always denied and Ireland still denies that the Union was binding upon her either legally or morally. And here on this historic occasion we have assembled to renew our protest and to place it upon record. ↗

— John Edward Redmond

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Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to that idea. ↗

— Scott Reed

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He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor. ↗

— Grantland Rice

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The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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