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"Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance."
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"Inside the building, the sun lights up segments of the rotting wooden floor through the many holes in the roof. As I look for her, I register things: the soggy floorboards. The smell of almonds, like her. An old claw-footed bathtub in a corner. So many holes everywhere that this place is simultaneously inside and outside."
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"The sun had bled away every smell and left nothing."
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"Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt."
"We demand that big business give people a square deal in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honesdy endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal."
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"A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues."
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"No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it."
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