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• I spend a lot of time just listening to the ospreys. I watch them go through their life cycle. They spend the winter in South America. The mother and father osprey stay together. It's a monogamous relationship. And every summer they raise a new brood of children. They came back to the nest in the middle of April. They take separate vacations in the winter - the mother and father.

  Alan Lightman

  Summer, Mother, Children

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• I grew up on the south side of Chicago in a working class community. There were no miracles in my life, there's nothing miraculous about how I grew up, and I want people to know when they look at me, to be clear that they see what an investment in public education can look like.

  Michelle Obama

  Class, People, Miracle

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• To secure the safety of the navigation of the Mississippi River I would slay millions. On that point I am not only insane, but mad... I think I see one or two quick blows that will astonish the natives of the South and will convince them that, though to stand behind a big cottonwood and shoot at a passing boat is good sport and safe, it may still reach and kill their friends and families hundreds of miles off. For every bullet shot at a steamboat, I would shoot a thousand 30-pounder Parrots into even helpless towns on Red, Ouachita, Yazoo, or wherever a boat can float or soldier march.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Sports, Thinking, Blow

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• Nobody's busting into YOUR apartment at three in the morning, are they? Well, then don't worry about what they're doing in South Korea and places like that. It's like the standard of living. Are you content to achieve your higher standard of living at the expense of people all over the world who've got a lower standard of living? Most Americans would say yes. Now we ask the question, are you content to enjoy your political freedom at the expense of people who are less free? I think they would also say yes.

  William S. Burroughs

  Morning, Thinking, Korea

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• Why do we shave? It doesn't seem like a natural activity. There are no examples of shaving in nature. The only creature that comes close is the male South Pacific Groping Beetle, which sometimes, just before mating, will slap on a little Aqua Velva. But we think this resulted from atomic testing.

  Dave Barry

  Thinking, Aqua, Males

  Dave Barry (2012). “The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry”, p.39, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The Showdown is a great way to bring attention to these historic Virginia tracks where many NASCAR drivers cut their teeth in stock car racing, including myself. Tracks like South Boston and Langley are the heart of the sport and draw a great crowd to our Showdown events.

  Denny Hamlin

  Sports, Heart, Cutting

  FaceBook post by Denny Hamlin from Sep 08, 2015

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• I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.

  Tanit Phoenix

  Girl, Fashion, Beach

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• Read non-fiction. History, biology, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology. Get a bodyguard and do fieldwork. Find your inner fish. Don't publish too soon. Not before you have read Thomas Mann in any case. Learn by copying, sentence by sentence some of the masters. Copy Coetzee's or Sebald's sentences and see what happens to your story. Consider creative non-fiction if you want to stay in South Africa. It might be the way to go. Never neglect back and hamstring exercises, otherwise you won't be able to write your novel. One needs one's buttocks to think.

  Marlene van Niekerk

  Writing, Exercise, Thinking

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• I and others on FIFA executive committee agreed to accept bribes in conjunction with selection of South Africa as host nation.

  Bryan Swanson

  Fifa, Host, Accepting

  Twitter post from Jun 03, 2015

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• I am very pleased to see this project moving ahead. The Hamilton Airport serves as an international gateway to south-western Ontario. This new facility will allow the airport to expand its air cargo business and help strengthen the local economy. This is another example of Ontario's commitment to public infrastructure that contributes to long-term growth for the region.

  Ted McMeekin

  Moving, Commitment, Airports

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• I'm doing something new on South Street and people are telling me I'm crazy It's kinda freaking me out.

  Stephen Starr

  Crazy, People, Something New

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• We South Asians have sycophancy in our genes!

  Cyrus Broacha

  Genes

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• Republicans face unexpected challenges in coastal South amid shrinking white vote

  Douglas A. Blackmon

  White, Challenges, Shrinking

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• Magnetic current is the same as electric current. Current is [actually] the wrong expression. Really it is not one current, they are two currents, one current is composed of North Pole individual magnets in concentrated streams and the other is composed of South Pole individual magnets in concentrated streams, and they are are running one stream against the other stream in whirling, screwlike fashion, and with high speed.

  Edward Leedskalnin

  Running, Fashion, Expression

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• We hope relevant countries will work together in the same direction to build the South China Sea into a sea of peace, friendship and co-operation.

  Ashton Carter

  Friendship, Country, Peace

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• If you are unskilled and uneducated, your job is going south. Skilled workers, educated people are going to do fine ’cause those are the kinds of jobs Nafta is going to create. If we are going to start rewarding no skills and stupid people, I’m serious, let the unskilled jobs that take absolutely no knowledge whatsoever to do - let stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Jobs, Stupid, Skills

  "Hey Rush Limbaugh: Keep Digging" by Jonathan Stein, www.motherjones.com. September 19, 2008.

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• I was a very lucky kid, because I grew up affluent Santa Barbara, California. My experience as a child was probably so different from people I met later who grew up in the rural South, where many doors were closed to them.

  Floyd Norman

  Children, Kids, Santa Barbara

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You'd never last in South America. Fans take their radios to the stadium so they can think what the commentators think.

  Simon Kuper

  Thinking, America, Fans

  "Sports Commentators". Interview with David Winner, www.askmen.com. September 5, 2011.

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• Rock 'n roll was born in the South, man. It's like saying rock-rock.

  Gregg Allman

  Rocks, Rock N Roll, Born

  "Success, Sorrow and Song: Gregg Allman’s Hard-Lived Life of Rock". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. August 14, 2012.

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• My whole family was - we grew up in New York, but all my relatives and all my father and stepfather's family, they were all from the South. So I like that old Black voice, and I love the sort of old Black man with a corncob pipe, sitting there telling a whopper.

  James McBride

  New York, Father, Men

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Africa is not just about where you are born. For me, Africa is the whole continent; from south to north, to east to west.

  Angelique Kidjo

  East, West, Born

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• A travel book is a book that puts you in the shoes of the traveler, and it's usually a book about having a very bad time, having a miserable time, even better. You don't want to read a book about someone having a great time in the South of France, eating and drinking and falling in love. What you want to read is a book about a guy going through the jungle, going through the arctic snow, having a terrible time trying to cross the Sahara, and solving problems as they go.

  Paul Theroux

  Falling In Love, Drinking, Book

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I love touring in the United States. It's dramatically different wherever you go. North to south you're going from snow to palm trees.

  Greg Lake

  Snow, Tree, United States

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• I don't think my grandmother would ever be convinced, but my family was convinced that I was convinced, and actually, they came around. My mother ended up going to fundraisers in Chicago that were raising money to send to the students in the South and actually, over years, she went to an elevated train bus station one day at 6:00 a.m. to hand out leaflets protesting the war.

  Diane Nash

  Mother, War, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, West Coast and down South.

  Big Sean

  East, Melting, West Coast

  Interview with Sowmya Krishnamurthy, www.askmen.com. June 23, 2011.

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