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All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a litera

All literary men are Red Sox fans – to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life. – John Cheever

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For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty. – John Cheever

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We need proof in our society. – Shirley MacLaine

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Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three oclock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap. – Barbara Jordan

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We get lost in a fog of abstractions and easily forget that man is a bloodhound sniffing out the real. – Robert C. Pollock

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We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility. – Thomas Carlyle

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Mother is a verb, not a noun. – Proverb

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Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey. – Ouida

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The Hispanic community values entrepreneurship and family-owned businesses, and we deserve a leader in Washington who is dedicated to creating an environment where our values, our goals and our dreams of prosperity can become reality. – Mario Diaz-Balart

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I hope that we can continue this cooperation on other critical issues related to Americas future technological competitiveness. We must work together to encourage the creative talents that have made our country the world leader in technology. – Dan Lipinski

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