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"As the 29th state to join the United States of America, it is our turn to show the nation what represents Iowa. Our commitment to quality education, hard work, and small-town values are all represented in the Iowa quarter."
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"The pride people take in their work transcends to their homes, their education, families and communities."
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"The March on Washington was a culmination of years of hard work and dedication of many individuals."
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"The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal."
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"The American work ethic is something to be admired. Our workforce, regardless of position, works hard to produce the best product and serve customers to the best of their ability."
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"The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals."
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"The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control of the budget, from developing it to implementing it, to ensuring that the National Intelligence Director has the clout to make decisions."
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"The 9/11 Commission recently released their report, citing important changes which need to be made to improve our nation's homeland security. I voiced my disappointment with the House leadership when this report was left until after the August recess for action."
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"Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions."
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"What's happened has happened, so what can we do to make it better for tomorrow and the day after? That's why we're here."
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"To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport."
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"The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better."
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"If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?"
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"Genghis Khan was a fascinating man and way ahead of his time."
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"I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming."
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"It is very a dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice."
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"Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it."
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"To be in the right is often an expensive business."
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"There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them."
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"Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within."
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"What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married."
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"We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety."
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"The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil."
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"Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers."
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"In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well."
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"I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it."
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"It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do."
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"I defend peoples' right to do that in a lawful manner, but I have not undertaken that practice myself."
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"The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication."
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"I actually use a computer a lot. I have three computers that I use on a regular basis - one is on my desk top in my Washington office, another is at home, and I have my laptop that I use when I'm travelling."
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"I think that the balance needs to be restored, and I would note that in the camp in which I am in, one finds libraries, universities, the Internet industry, the manufacturers of digital media, and consumers."
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"I have been involved in Internet-related policy for approximately one decade, and I have been using the Internet myself for almost that period of time."
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"This year my role is clear: I am a coach, a coach to sportsmen."
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"There are many questions, but I cannot answer because I'm not a businessman, I am a climber."
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