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President Reagan has no enemies in the Phillipines. 
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President Reagan was the quintessential Happy Warrior, and no one loves, respects, and admires Reaga... 
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I've been in a position before where a president has turned to me in the Oval Office in a diffic... 
President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together. 
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Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century. 
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It's time for conservative Americans to do what Reagan did. 
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Well, I think the reality is that as you study - when President Kennedy cut marginal tax rates, when... 
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The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will r... 
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It is easy for Americans to forget a simple fact that is very clear to the people around the world t... 
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I've been truly blessed. I've been a fly on the wall of history. I've been just so many ... 
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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist. 
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Mass is resistance to motion. 
Anything and everything, physical or otherwise, is defined by its absence. 
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It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off 
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If you think you can do it, you can. 
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change. 
We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are. 
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