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Jalal Talabani Politician
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"No for the return of Saddam's Baath party. This is against the constitution and those who are negotiating to bring them back are violating the constitution."

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"Try to think of your thoughts as boomerangs - that is actually what they are - except that our thoughts multiply and each returns to us with a brood like itself."

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George Washington Military Leader, Politician
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"The signal instances of Providential goodness which we have experienced and which have now almost crowned our labors with complete success demand from us in a peculiar manner the warmest returns of gratitude and piety to the Supreme Author of all good."

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Gordon Campbell Politician
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"It's time for the Americans to say they're going to live up to their obligations and return the dollars that have been illegally taken from Canadians."

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Henry Adams Historian
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"If Thought is capable of being classed with Electricity, or Will with chemical affinity, as a mode of motion, it seems necessary to fall at once under the second law of thermodynamics as one of the energies which most easily degrades itself, and, if not carefully guarded, returns bodily to the cheaper form called Heat. Of all possible theories, this is likely to prove the most fatal to Professors of History."

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Henry Miller Novelist, Essayist
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"Perhaps I have not lined his portrait too clearly. But if he exists, if only for the reason that I have imagined him to be. He came from the blue and returns to the blue. He has not perished, he is not lost. Neither will he be forgotten."

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"It must be important or he wouldn't dare disturb me now,” he muttered. Then he drew away to look at me. “If it's not, I'll kill him and return to you directly."

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