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"Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation."
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"The Peace of Wild ThingsWhen despair for the world grows in meand I wake in the night at the least soundin fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,I go and lie down where the wood drakerests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.I come into the peace of wild thingswho do not tax their lives with forethoughtof grief. I come into the presence of still water.And I feel above me the day-blind starswaiting with their light. For a timeI rest in the grace of the world, and am free."

"Then the immortal heart of the woods will beat against ours and its subtle life will steal into our veins and make us its own forever, so that no matter where we go or how widely we wander we shall yet be drawn back to the forest to find our most enduring kinship."

"Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?"

"Mountains in the distance remind me of you."

"No mountain is of any appreciable height to break the curve of the sphere."

"Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out."

"It was still twilight when they reached the flat rock. They sat, and the stone still held the warmth of the day's sun. At first there were only occasional sparkles, but as it got darker Chuck was lost in a daze pf delight as a galaxy of fireflies twinkled on and off, flinging upward in a blaze of light, dropping earthward like falling stars, moving in contiuous effervescent dance."

"He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound.."
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"There were no weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein was not involved in the September 11th attack."

"Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all."

"The President is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the wealthy, and reductions in spending for domestic needs."

"At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire."

"Today many Caribbean workers can be found in the hospital, construction, service and hotel industries, but there is also a growing professional sector."

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"We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again."
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