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“We saw Earth’s breath.”

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“People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.”

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"For millions of American women, reading the news this morning was like stepping into a time machine and going back 50 years, seeing the headlines and the photos of this all-male panel in the House tal…"

— Sandra Fluke

Law1981

#friendship

"When next he came to me he was drunk—royally drunk on many poets for the first time revealed to him. His pupils were dilated, his words tumbled over each other, and he wrapped himself in quotations—as…"

— Rudyard Kipling

Literature1865–1936

#friendship

"My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them."

— Emily Dickinson

Literature1830–1886

#friendship

"These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions …"

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Politics1882–1945

#freedom