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		Today, everybody is more or less conscious of the total failure of the Cuban revolution to produce wealth, to produce a better standard of living for the Cubans. With the exception of small radical parties, Latin Americans know that it's a brutal dictatorship and the longest in Latin American history.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mario Vargas Llosa
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Manish Dayal
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mara Liasson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The competition has improved tremendously. In 2003, I could teach a guy how to play poker in an hour and he could win some money. Today, it would take days. The game has gotten so much tougher. So I will spend my time with my family and play when I can.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Chris Moneymaker
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If someone says: "I don't want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich sense of deaf culture," he must acknowledge that the deaf culture that exists in the world today has a different scale than the deaf culture that's likely to exist in the world 50 years from now.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Andrew Solomon
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When people today say 'racism,' they mean it's a nationalism they don't like. Racialism used to be a good thing, a looking-out for what was best for one group... Israel comes out of that 19th-century idea of nationalism. Many Arab states also have preferences. It's fundamentally unfair to decide that one is racism and the others aren't.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ian Lustick
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
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		Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Joe Scarborough
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The difficulty in a number of Western democracies is that the playing field is being tilted. For many in the middle class, prosperity seems unattainable because a good education - today's passport to riches - is unaffordable.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Raghuram Rajan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm the kind of guy who, I need a watch that tells me what day it is. I need to know it's Friday on my watch. I need to look at it and go, 'Friday today.' Tomorrow I will not know it's Saturday until I look at my watch. My watchband broke, I was crippled. I have no concept of time, I have no concept of dates.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Nathan Fillion
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Why be a dumb dud? Do your friends shun you? Do people cross the street when they see you approaching? Do they run up the steps of strange houses, pretend they live there and force their way into the hall while you are passing by? If this is the sort of person you are, you must avail yourself today of this new service. Otherwise, you might as well be dead.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Flann O'Brien
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		But, we didn't have all the media that we do today.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Wanda Jackson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I mean, we've built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it's really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that's what's so amazing about the scale that it's at today.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mark Zuckerberg