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"There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body."

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."

"Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself."

"There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago, says that which lies close to my own soul, that which I also had wellnigh thought and said."

"And then the queen wept with all her heart. Not for the cruel and greedy man who had warred and killed and savaged everywhere he could. But for the boy who had somehow turned into that man, the boy whose gentle hand had comforted her childhood hurts, the boy whose frightened voice had cried out to her at the end of his life, as if he wondered why he had gotten lost inside himself, as if he realized that it was too, too late to get out again."
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"Some of my friends who know me best say they wouldn't trade places with me for $1 million because of the pace I lead."

"You can't be halfway in this business. If you don't meet the fans, you lose all you've got."

"When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country."

"When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could."

"I've been married to the same man for all this time. The way we fight sometimes, you can tell."

"I wouldn't have dared ask God for all that He's given me. I couldn't have done it on my own. I thank God every day for what I have."
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