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• The plea agreement negotiated by Janet Reno's Justice Department with Nora, Gene and Trisha Lum is a hoax. It allows two key players in the campaign finance scandal to plead to lesser offenses and effectively concludes a serious investigation that, if taken to a conclusion, could have seriously affected the Clinton Administration's claim that it committed no illegalities in the campaign finance scandal. Nora Lum was a close confidant of Ron Brown and remains close to John Huang. Trisha Lum, her daughter, worked for Brown at the Commerce Department and worked on trade missions.

  Larry Klayman

  Daughter, Taken, Player

  "Two Democratic Fund-Raisers Charged In Campaign Money Probe" by Terry Freiden, www.cnn.com. May 21, 1997.

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• As long as we have practiced neither concentration nor mindfulness, the ego takes itself for granted and remains its usual normal size, as big as the people around one will allow.

  Ayya Khema

  Long, People, Ego

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• So all I'm saying is, everything that seems important--our quarrels, or philosophical differences--in the end, it doesn't matter much. You know? In the end, what matters is what remains.

  Thrity Umrigar

  Philosophical, Differences, What Matters

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• And what if there’s nothing in there?’ You die and there’s nothing beyond that. Nothing. Nothing remains. Someone might remember you for a little while after but not for long.

  Dmitry Glukhovsky

  Remember You, Remembers You, Long

  Dmitry Glukhovsky (2014). “METRO 2033: The cult bestseller behind the METRO LAST LIGHT and METRO 2033 video games”, p.165, Dmitry Glukhovskiy

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• You'll live astride the line that separates life from death. You'll become experienced in the wisdom of grief. You won't wait until people die to grieve for them; you'll give them their grief while they are still alive, for then judgment falls away, and there remains only the miracle of being.

  Rana Dasgupta

  Grief, Fall, Grieving

  Rana Dasgupta (2011). “Solo”, p.335, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I believe that anyone who doesn't read remains dumb. Even if they know how, failing to regularly ingest the written word dooms them to ignorance, no matter what else they have or do.

  Edward Bunker

  Believe, Ignorance, Dumb

  Edward Bunker (2012). “Mr Blue: Memoirs of a Renegade”, p.323, Oldcastle Books

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• All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.

  Walter de La Mare

  Cat, Doors, Long

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• The will of the United States can be shaken by suiciders and suiciders who are willing to drive up to a Red Cross center, a center of international help and aid and comfort, and just kill. [...] The strategy remains the same. The tactics to respond to more suiciders driving cars will alter on the ground.

  George W. Bush

  Car, Comfort, United States

  "In Bush’s Words: ’We Have the Right Strategy’ on Iraq". News conference in Washington, www.nytimes.com. October 28, 2003.

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• The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Freedom Of Speech, Brain, Mind

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• I have long held firm to my suspicion that some people are just evil. In some cases I'll concede it seems as though it is thrust upon someone who had little real hope of avoiding it. However tragic that reality, the simple fact remains that it is more important to protect the rest of society for as long as it remains a danger to them.

  Jeremy Kyle

  Real, Simple, Long

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• This remains a very important opportunity for the American people to have their day in court against big tobacco and its marketing practices. I urge Congress to provide the funding to allow the lawsuit to move forward, and not to shield the tobacco industry from the consequences of its actions.

  William J. Clinton

  Moving Forward, Opportunity, Practice

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• The western model of growth that India and China wish to emulate is intrinsically toxic. It uses huge resources - energy and materials - and generates enormous waste... it remains many steps behind the problems it creates. India and China have no choice but to reinvent the development trajectory

  Sunita Narain

  Future, Choices, Growth

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• Naturepitiless in a pitiless universeis certainly not concerned with the survival of Americans or, for that matter, of any of the two billion people now inhabiting this earth. Hence, our destiny, with the aid of God, remains in our own hands.

  J. William Fulbright

  God, Destiny, Hands

  Congressional Record, vol. 100, p. 1106., February 2, 1954.

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• Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.

  Elie Wiesel

  Dream, Moon, Men

  Elie Wiesel (2013). “Souls on Fire”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

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• There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away.

  Norman Mailer

  Freedom, America, Long

  1966 Cannibals and Christians,'My Hope For America'.

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• Balance. It was all about balance. That had been one of the first things that she had learned: the centre of the seesaw has neither up nor down, but upness and downness flow through it while it remains unmoved. You had to be the centre of the seesaw so the pain flowed through you, not into you. It was very hard. But she could do it!

  Terry Pratchett

  Pain, Balance, Firsts

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• For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Inspirational, Basketball, Years

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• To deny that in a child after baptism sin remains is to treat with contempt both Paul and Christ.

  Pope Leo X

  Children, Baptism, Sin

  "Exsurge Domine". Book by Pope Leo X, June 15, 1520.

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• I love baseball, and the door remains open.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Sports, Baseball, Doors

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• One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principles of common sense, as validated each day by work, play, and living experience. But this remains the most utopian and fantastic of ideals.

  Edward Abbey

  Play, Common Sense, Healthy

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.21, RosettaBooks

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• There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.

  Edward Abbey

  Civilization, Names, Worthy

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.23, RosettaBooks

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• Alaska is our biggest, buggiest, boggiest state. Texas remains our largest unfrozen state. But mountainous Utah, if ironed out flat, would take up more space on a map than either.

  Edward Abbey

  Texas, Utah, Space

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.57, RosettaBooks

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• For a great many people, the evening is the most enjoyable part of the day. Perhaps, then, there is something to his advice that I should cease looking back so much, that I should adopt a more positive outlook and try to make the best of what remains of my day. After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  People, Forever, Advice

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2010). “The Remains of the Day”, p.244, Vintage

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• The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression.

  Henry Adams

  Expression, Habit, Strikes

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.89, Booklassic

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• Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. Plot is observed after the fact rather than before. It cannot precede action. It is the chart that remains when an action is through. That is all Plot ever should be. It is human desire let run, running, and reaching a goal. It cannot be mechanical. It can only be dynamic.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Character, Snow

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