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What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
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I speak English, obviously, Afrikaans, which is a derivative of Dutch that we have in South Africa. And then I speak African… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
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God is great"). Conversations about the practical impossibility of God's existence and the science-based irrationality of an afterlife slid seamlessly into xenophobia… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
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None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his… — James Goldsmith Copy Share Image
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[My work] just develops and develops, and I'm very nicely served by the universe: just as I'm ready to take the conversation… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
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