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The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal. ↗

— Robert Trout

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Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them. ↗

— Pierre Trudeau

#canada #canadians #country #feel #home

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward. ↗

— Robin Trower

#forward #going #move #move forward #something

Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for. ↗

— Dalton Trumbo

#brought #decent #decent man #democracy #die

Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt. ↗

— Pierre Trudeau

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A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening. ↗

— Kenneth Tynan

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I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist. ↗

— Francois Truffaut

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I hope to work harder than ever to help people around the world. ↗

— Lech Walesa

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I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

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A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

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