"I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues."
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"I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.“
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"Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing."
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"Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle."
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"I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children."
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"I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should."
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"I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society."
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"Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers."
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"If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society."
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"For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats."
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"There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations."
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"This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?"
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"What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history."
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