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“Take earth for your own large room and the floor of earth carpeted with sunlight and hung round with silver wind for your dancing place.”
Source : May Swenson (2013). “May Swenson: Collected Poems: (Library of America #239)”, p.675, Library of America
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“Reason gains all people by compelling none.”
Source : "Alzira: A Tragedy". Play by Aaron Hill, 1736.
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“I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn't replacing Babe Ruth.”
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“I no longer believe in freedom of speech.”
Source : Twitter post from Oct 8, 2011 
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“If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.”
Source : "Comedian Hal Sparks on love and pot" by Jarrett Bellini, www.cnn.com. June 10, 2011.
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“Democracy cannot be forced upon a society, neither is it a gift that can be held forever. It has to be struggled hard for and defended everyday anew.”
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“I have to think of my status as a resident in this country. But I do insist that in Paraguay there was order; the judiciary had the power of complete independence; justice was fully exercised.”
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“(About importance of focusing on one sport at a time) I've never tried to do that, we have more of a holistic approach. We want to become better decathletes and better competitors. I think for us that means just toeing the line at whatever it is we're doing that day and being confident in preparing as best as we can. Later in the year, late in the season when we have all of the thousands of reps under our belt, we can try to maybe focus on one or two things and leave some stuff off one week. Really, we like to keep everything inside the routine and part of the process.”
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“It is fashionable in some academic circles to exercise scholarly criticism of the Bible. In so doing, scholars place themselves above the Bible and seek to correct it. If indeed the Bible is the Word of God, nothing could be more arrogant. It is God who corrects us; we don’t correct Him. We do not stand over God but under Him.”
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“Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.”
Source : Traditional sign-off for "The Writer's Almanac" radio show, 1993 - 2017.
