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In historical and constitutional terms, the recent political status vote in Puerto Rico was a necessary but obviously not decisive step on the road of self-determination leading to full self-government. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

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It is quite understandable that Puerto Ricans seek to preserve a cultural sense of identity without separating politically from U.S. national sovereignty. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

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That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth about each option, including the upside and the downside of each. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

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The capacity of the commonwealth government created under the local constitution to exercise governmental powers in local affairs is like that of local government in the states of the union in regard to non-federal affairs at the local level. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

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Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

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Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

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Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life. ↗

— Jeremy Thorpe

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I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other. ↗

— Billy Bob Thornton

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person. ↗

— James Thurber

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I wanted to write songs that were as good as the covers. ↗

— George Thorogood

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