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"Georgie, stop trying to resurrect the shoes. They were never alive in the first place."
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"Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum."
"The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first can make the second."
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