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		Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
	
	  J. M. Coetzee J. M. Coetzee
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		I always try to make each character my own.
	
	  Aaron Lazar Aaron Lazar
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		I have a great love for nature. That must have started somewhere down back home, I think, because my family own one of the better known gardens in Soochow, so I played there, and I lived there, and so I must have absorbed something there. So I continue to have a great interest in nature.
	
	  I. M. Pei I. M. Pei
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		Now that we all live in a bad '70s sci-fi movie, I am made to understand the tyranny of the machines every minute of every day.
	
	  T. C. Boyle T. C. Boyle
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		When I see other people out there, involved, and really giving their time and effort for the kids, then I don't mind giving my time and effort for the kids as well.
	
	  LaMarr Woodley LaMarr Woodley
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		For the moment, I'm concentrating on my own stuff.
	
	  Cheryl James Cheryl James
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		My mother had me when she was 16, and that was an issue that had to be dealt with. She grew up in a very religious background, and there was a lot of discussion of what they should do with this unborn child. But here I am, and thank goodness.
	
	  Carmen Cusack Carmen Cusack
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		My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.
	
	  J. C. Ryle J. C. Ryle
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		I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people.
	
	  Chief Joseph Chief Joseph
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		We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.
	
	  John Hope Franklin John Hope Franklin
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		I've had an unhappy life, thank God.
	
	  Russell Baker Russell Baker