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Now, for Romney to believe that somebody's grandmother is going to be so cut off she is going to self deport... He… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
After an inferior man has been taught a doctrine of superiority he will remain as inferior as he was before his lesson.… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
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If you want to humble an empire it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
By the time May rolls around, I'm probably going to want to spend a month on an island. But if Steven Spielberg… — Marg Helgenberger Copy Share Image
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It was in Australia. I started in Cairns and went up to Cape Tribulation, Port Douglas and then went to Fraser Island.… — Rachel McAdams Copy Share Image
It would be wrong to interpret the growth of British national consciousness in this period in terms of a new cultural and… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
At any given time, there are a lot of million-dollar luxury charter boats cruising around the Mentawai Islands finding the most incredible… — Rob Machado Copy Share Image
I will not close my eyes, neither those in my head nor those in my soul, as the ship carries me away,… — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
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You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of… — Israel Zangwill Copy Share Image
It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The name Alaska is probably an abbreviation of Unalaska, derived from the original Aleut word agunalaksh, which means "the shores where the… — Corey Ford Copy Share Image
A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Puerto Rico is an island separated by an ocean, a language, a culture. All of that put it in a position where… — Nelson Antonio Denis Copy Share Image
We Poor Cousins don’t care at all though, except for when we’re on welfare, broke, starving, unable to buy cool high-tops for… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
We know that the warming rising seas will swallow entire island nations that are about 25 percent of the UN vote and… — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
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The little fishing boat anchors right off the shore of Gili Meno. There are no docks here on this island. You have… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
They're willing to accept changes on the part of the U.S. that contribute to more money entering Cuba so they can benefit.… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
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It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all fresh-water mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
By the time I retire, I will have fought the best. I will have made my money. Maybe I'll be a boxing… — Oscar De La Hoya Copy Share Image
John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' also speaks urgently to today's concerns: the cratered trail of dreams for Mexican immigrants seeking a… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
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