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"I am struck by how casually we as a nation react to the carnage in Iraq."
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"I straightened up and looked out the plane window at the dark clouds hanging over the North Sea, thinking of what I had lost in the course of my life: times gone forever, friends who had died or disappeared, feelings I would never know again."

"In poems, equally as in philosophic disquisitions, genius produces the strongest impressions of novelty while it rescues the most admitted truths from the impotence caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission."

"That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire myself. What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only Peeta can give me that."

"One thing left me, my dad died before few weeks and with the time will be very far... It will start with seconds, hours, days, weeks, months, years....My grandpa died this year, my grandpa other died somewhere in 2012-2013, my dog died 2014, Robin Williams died... Everyone dies, what I can do for that???"

"The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg."

"Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after a while and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came."

"Any life wasted or spent is gone and it will never come back."

"Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers."
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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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"The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way."

"If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature."

"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."

"I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society."

"The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear."

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