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		I've always held the view that great states need strategic space. I mean, George Washington took his space from George III. Britain took it from just about everybody. Russia took all of Eastern Europe. Germany's taken it from everywhere they can, and China will want its space too.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Paul Keating 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Said Nursi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Adam Michnik 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Karin Slaughter 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Salman Khan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Zadie Smith 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The U.K. is one of the places that has always been an advocate of my music and I spend a lot of time touring here. I've got family and friends over here, but more than that, there's a large Jamaican community and the Jamaican culture is very widespread in the U.K. which I love. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Damian Marley 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		I saw 'Clueless' five times in the theatre when I was growing up. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Lizzy Caplan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		For a city or a people to be truly free they must have the secure right, without economic, political or police pressure, to make their own choice and to live their own lives. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				John F. Kennedy 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It was really tough being in jail. It doesn't get much lower. You're in a filthy room. The food is terrible, and you're surrounded by people who have done all types of crazy crimes. You have nothing that belongs to you, not even your own underwear. It's just terrible. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jon Jones 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The first time I ever felt the necessity or inevitableness of verse, was in the desire to reproduce the peculiar quality of feeling which is induced by the flat spaces and wide horizons of the virgin prairie of western Canada. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				T. E. Hulme 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The truth is the middle class is not only stagnant but it is my fear that, without sustained and focused action, it is at risk of disappearing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jan Schakowsky 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've always held the view that great states need strategic space. I mean, George Washington took his space from George III. Britain took it from just about everybody. Russia took all of Eastern Europe. Germany's taken it from everywhere they can, and China will want its space too. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Paul Keating