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Therefore, I feel convinced that any political picture can be changed to suit the needs of the powers that be. Thor Heyerdahl
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I'm gonna keep Social Security without change, except I'm going to get rid of the waste, fraud, and abuse; same thing with Medicare. Donald Trump
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Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever. Zadie Smith
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Everything can change. You can always have hope. Willie Aames
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I don't know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now. William Shatner
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I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son. Gaines Adams
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It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.' George Allen
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I am in my own head most of the time. Vivienne Westwood
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The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revile, read about in the society pages, and gossip about incessantly - disappeared from most American cities decades ago. Timothy Noah
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I don't think the Internet has replaced cities in any significant way, nor really could it. Cities are dynamic - and deeply seductive for the people who flock there - because they broker all sorts of fantastic and useful connections, cultural and economic and social. Clive Thompson
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I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it's a disaster that we have moved so far from nature. Alice Walker
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Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows. Gore Vidal
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No city embraced privatization more eagerly than Chicago, where I live. Bethany McLean
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Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city. Bill Bryson
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I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco I thought it was no religion for me. Bertrand Russell
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We have very strict rules about what we can and can't do in terms of the USOC. What we can't do right now is lobby, ... The odds are that if the rules had not been changed, all the cities would be talking to the IOC to get it to influence the USOC.