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		You know, I would say Incomplete...but what I would say is the steps that we have taken in saving the auto industry, in making sure that college is more affordable and investing in clean energy and science and technology and research, those are all the things that we are going to need to grow over the long term.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Barack Obama
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When you have a tough year or a year that didn't go the way you wanted it, especially the playoffs and all that and not being able to take advantage of our team and our talent on our team, you feel that. And whenever something is taken away from you like that, you definitely cherish it more.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Blake Griffin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I was submitting my first novel, I had no idea that publishing scams existed. I never encountered any, but I could have - and knowing how easily I might have been taken advantage of makes me determined to protect others from falling into that trap.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Victoria Strauss
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		All my life, I've been a type 1 diabetic. I've always taken life day by day.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bret Michael Sychak
			
			
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		At times, we take freedom for granted. We really don't know how to cherish the freedom we have until it's taken from us.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alek Wek
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us, and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Narendra Modi
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I think if we don't fix the economy and if we don't fix foreign policy, we won't have the luxury of dealing with domestic issues that may be important to Christians but we have to understand that in my view, we've taken our eyes off the ball a bit.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				T. D. Jakes
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads. Unfortunately, this decision creates a loophole for government to manipulate the definition of public use simply to generate greater tax revenue.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jim Ryun
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm always the girl at the party who, within five minutes, has taken my heels off, hitched up my dress in my knickers, and probably spilt drink down my cleavage.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sadie Frost
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Social media reactions to celebrity death have taken on a predictable pattern: an outpouring of shock with expressions of grief, followed by a ghoulish need to know all the details, to see the scene of the death and the family in mourning. Then a post-mortem dissection of all the perceived flaws the celebrity had.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jennifer Armintrout
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Meg Wheatley
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Vincent Van Gogh
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Fixing things around the house was the last bastion of manliness. But now, even that is getting taken away. As women become more economically independent, they are starting to fix things around the house for themselves.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Hanna Rosin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It's different every time you write. Sometimes it might be harder than it was the day before. I don't like forcing it, but sometimes, if you force it a little bit, it helps you to push forward, and you get inspired in a way. I've written songs in an hour. And there are songs that have taken me six months.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Phillip Phillips
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Black Lives Matter organizers hold the same values of America's age-old enemies, who have always fought the ideals of our Constitution and our nation. That they have now taken on as their costume a false concern for Black America only adds to their depravity.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David A. Clarke, Jr.
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I never felt that I should have taken a 'regular job;' I was always lucky enough to be in regular employment as an actress.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bronagh Gallagher
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		America has never taken me to its heart. I've always been an outsider.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Don McCullin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If there is one great power, and the great power has taken upon itself the right to preempt and is choosing for itself when and in what circumstances it's going to do that, obviously it leads people in the rest of the world to wonder how far this doctrine extends.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Lewis Gaddis