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• I always wanted to experience the street life because my teenage life in Aberdeen was so boring. But I was never really independent enough to do it. I applied for food stamps, lived under the bridge, and built a fort at the cedar mill.

  Kurt Cobain

  Teenage, Independent, Bridges

  "Our December 1992 Cover Story: 'Family Values'" by Jonathan Poneman, www.spin.com. December 12, 2017.

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• I used to come out here every Fourth of July as a child to picnic and to swim on the island, to tour the fort and wander through it. And all of that time, I never knew anything about the presence of black soldiers on the island. And so, for me, this was a way of trying to tell another history, a lost or a forgotten or a little-known history about these black soldiers who played an important part in American history.” Trethewey said.
  Coincidentally, she was born “exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866.

  Natasha Trethewey

  Memorial Day, Children, Islands

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• God has appointed us captains of this our bodily fort, which, without treason to that majesty, are never to be delivered over till they are demanded.

  Philip Sidney

  Suicide, Majesty, Captains

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.151

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• Les te  moins sont fort chers, et n'en a pas qui veut. Witnesses are expensive and not everyone can afford them.

  Jean Racine

  Witness, Expensive

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• La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure. The reason of the strongest is always the best.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Reason, Plus, Strongest

  'Fables' bk. 1 (1668) 'Le Loup et l'Agneau'

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• I hardly sustain myself beneath the weight of white men's blood that I have shed. The whites provoked the war; their injustices, their indignities to our families, the cruel, unheard of and wholly unprovoked massacre at Fort Lyon ... shook all the veins which bind and support me. I rose, tomahawk in hand, and I have done all the hurt to the whites that I could.

  Sitting Bull

  Hurt, War, Men

  "The Lance and the Shield" by Robert M. Utley, New York: Henry Holt and Co., (pp. 79-80), 1993.

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• While I am in favor of the Government promptly enforcing the laws for the present, defending the forts and collecting the revenue,I am not in favor of a war policy with a view to the conquest of any of the slave States; except such as are needed to give us a good boundary. If Maryland attempts to go off, suppress her in order to save the Potomac and the District of Columbia. Cut a piece off of western Virginia and keep Missouri and all the Territories.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  War, Cutting, Virginia

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• Signal smokes, war drums, feathered bonnets against the western sky. New messiahs, young leaders are ready to hurl the finest light cavalry in the world against Fort Stark. In the Kiowa village, the beat of drums echoes in the pulsebeat of the young braves. Fighters under a common banner, old quarrels forgotten, Comanche rides with Arapaho, Apache with Cheyenne. All chant of war. War to drive the white man forever from the red man's hunting ground.

  Frank Nugent

  War, Native American, Men

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• A large body of people, sufficient to make a nation, have come to the conclusion that they will have a government of a certain form. Who denies them the right? Standing with the principles of '76 behind us, who can deny them the right? ... I maintain on the principles of '76 that Abraham Lincoln has no right to a soldier in Fort Sumter. ... You can never make such a war popular. ... The North never will endorse such a war.

  Wendell Phillips

  War, Government, People

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• My parents had us very young. We lived in a modest house. We built forts, we hiked, we went camping and they wanted us to be independent. It's how children grew up in the 1940s and 50s: outside all the time, playing in the dirt, riding your bike around.

  Brooklyn Decker

  Children, Independent, Riding Your Bike

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• Sin also carries on its war by entangling the affections and drawing them into an alliance against the mind. Grace may be enthroned in the mind, but if sin controls the affections, it has seized a fort from which it will continually assault the soul. Hence, as we shall see, mortification is chiefly directed to take place upon the affections.

  John Owen

  War, Drawing, Grace

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• Are you by any chance acquainted with the words 'steel toe'? Or do the words 'permanent dent' mean anything to you?" My locker door is not intimidated. "My grandfather was a vault at Fort Knox, and if you try to dent me with a kick you will only tear some ligament that will never mend.

  David Klass

  Mean, Doors, Grandfather

  David Klass (2007). “You Don't Know Me”, p.176, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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• Better to be a laughing-stock than lose the fort for fear of being one.

  Rosemary Sutcliff

  Courage, Fear, Laughing

  Rosemary Sutcliff (2011). “The Eagle”, p.21, Macmillan

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• I was accepted to Colorado State University in Fort Collins, which is a terrific Aggie school, and they had a great forestry program. But when I saw the syllabus and realized what I was going to actually have to be studying, there was a lot of science! If you want a degree in forestry, it's basically a science degree. And I just thought, "No, no, no, wait a second. Never mind!"

  Keith Carradine

  School, Waiting, Mind

  "Keith Carradine on 'Deadwood,' 'Fargo,' and Madonna". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.

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• Did you see, after this horrific tragedy in Boston, that [Barack] Obama cannot utter the word 'terrorist.' It's not politically correct. He even called the Fort Hood murderer 'workplace violence.' Because it's politically incorrect to talk about 'jihad,' or to talk about 'terrorist,' or to talk about 'the war on terror.' He won't say those words, because they're politically incorrect.

  Rafael Cruz

  War, Boston, Tragedy

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I have a black Grandma and white Grandma. My white Grandma lives in Fort Lauderdale, paints, and teaches bridge. She's wonderful. My black Grandma, equally wonderful, is my neighbor across the street, Bobbie, who's always insisted that I call her Grandma, and honestly, over the years she's become a real Grandma to me.

  Davy Rothbart

  Real, Grandma, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was a producer and rapper before Linkin Park. Once the band took off, it was the center of my focus. A couple of years ago, I started missing doing straight-up hip hop, and that's when Fort Minor began.

  Mike Shinoda

  Couple, Rapper, Years

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• The whole military structure in Haiti that existed until the early 1990s was put in place by the American occupation. At the top there were Southern white officers, who led an army that crushed the indigenous resistance - the cacos. A high-ranking U.S. officer said when he arrived, "To think these niggers speak French!" Later, Haitian officers attended the notorious School of the Americas at Fort Benning. The threat from the U.S. is something that is always hanging over people's heads: If we don't behave, we'll have occupation again.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Military, School, Army

  Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• We prosecuted two of the biggest terrorism cases in the world and stopped Fort Dix from being attacked by six American radicalized Muslims from a Mosque in New Jersey because we worked with the Muslim American community to get intelligence and we used the Patriot Act to get other intelligence to make sure we did those cases. This is the difference between actually been a federal prosecutor, actually doing something, and not just spending your life as one of hundred debating it.

  Chris Christie

  Two, Differences, Community

  Transcript of the fifth Republican top-tier debate 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.cbsnews.com. December 15, 2015.

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• Each restorational advancement of the Army of the Lord has established denominational forts that are given responsibility to maintain the purity and power of that truth... New recruits are now being drafted and trained and older soldiers and generals are being put through intensified training for the next advancement of the Church Army. They are being purified by the Baptism of Fire... Are you ready? Where do you start? What will you do? A new government must be established, a new way of life for those millions of people. You are now ready to rule and reign on your overcomer's throne!

  Bill Hamon

  Responsibility, Army, Fire

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• I think that we should ban so-called junk guns. I think we should ban assault weapons like the weapons used here [in Fort Worth], yes. I think that the kinds of weapons that have no legitimate use for hunting or the kind of weapon that a homeowner would use, I think they should be banned, yes, those kind of weapons.

  Al Gore

  Thinking, Hunting, Gun

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• The first season of 'Community' stumbled a bit because the plotlines too often veered into realism, but that is not a problem anymore. Not when prize episodes concern a campuswide blanket fort, or a secret garden with a magic trampoline.

  Rob Sheffield

  Garden, Community, Magic

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• Want to talk third-wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to spring break at Fort Lauderdale, getting drunk, and flashing your breasts isn't an act of personal empowerment. It's you, so fashioned and programmed by the construct of patriarchal society that you no longer know what's best for yourself. A damsel too dumb to even know she's in distress.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Spring, Ideas, Drunk

  "Snuff". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, www.sfgate.com. 2008.

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• All rights and laws are still transmitted,
  Like an eternal sickness to the race.
  [Ger., Es erben sich Gesetz and Rechte
  Wie eine ew'ge Krankheit fort.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Rights, Race, Law

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• Kuwait is the origin which our roots extend in it's base. The fort that we seek for shelter and stick to after God Almighty. Kuwait is the entity that maintains our presence that's united in it's features and divisions.

  Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

  Kuwait, Roots, Sticks

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