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Quote by Salman Rushdie
In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes

In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss. – Salman Rushdie

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Rock and roll music – the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms. – Salman Rushdie

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Freedom
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A poets work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. – Salman Rushdie

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Poetry
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Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history. – Marco Rubio

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History is the daughter of time. – Lucien Febvre, The Problem of Unbelief in the Sixteenth Century

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The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it. – George W. Bush

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. – Robert Frost

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Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts. – Jim Morrison

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I feel cheesy when I see Silver Spoons. Some of it was funny, but some of it was just cheese! My kids love it, but I look at it and cringe. – Ricky Schroder

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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done. – James Madison

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power

The non-specific response of the body to any demand for change. – Hans Selye

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