The flooding in New Orleans represents what might be a new chapter in our history, ... The enormity of what we've seen is unprecedented, even fascinating to a degree. We may wind up seeing a lot of disassociation as we work through it.

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This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history.
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I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
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The words you can’t find, you borrow.
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JOHNNIE DENT JR. we
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in the morning.
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We think this is a first in the history of business. We've selected a product spokesperson without e...
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
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STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
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IRVIN MAYFIELD It is a lie.
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JAMILA SPENCER I don't know if you've got something to shout about, but we've got something to shout about. What yo...
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C. JOYBELL C. We have never seen this in the New Orleans district.
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BARBARA KATZ ROTHMAN This is a new chapter and we're focused on what we need to do.
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DEYTH BANGER The reason New Orleans is still around is because of the celebrations it has inspired since its ince...
IRVIN MAYFIELD I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
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CHARLES JAMES Pain is life--the sharper, the more evidence of life.
CHARLES LAMB I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
CHARLES DEGAULLE Why did the Clinton Administration wait from 1995 to 1998 to tighten security and bolster counterint...
CHARLES BASS The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the int...
CHARLES SUMNER The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.
CHARLES SUMNER How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of...
CHARLES LINDBERGH We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true,...
CHARLES KINGSLEY Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from the dead -- fr...
CHARLES KINGSLEY Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message to us from the dead, - fr...
CHARLES KINGSLEY He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
CHARLES LAMB Borrowers of books --those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creat...
CHARLES LAMB I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and th...
CHARLES LAMB Every true Christian is a soldier - of Christ - a hero 'par excellence'! Braver than the bra...
CHARLES STUDD Because the fees associated with a reverse mortgage are high, such loans make sense only for borrowe...
CHARLES DUHIGG In surveys, many borrowers say reverse mortgages have improved their lives and provided money they n...
CHARLES DUHIGG Because reverse mortgages do not require borrowers to make immediate repayments, the interest charge...
CHARLES DUHIGG Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
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The flooding in New Orleans represents what might be a new chapter in our history, ... The enormity of what we've seen is unprecedented, even fascinating to a degree. We may wind up seeing a lot of disassociation as we work through it.

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The flooding in New Orleans represents what might be a new chapter in our history, ... The enormity of what we've seen is unprecedented, even fascinating to a degree. We may wind up seeing a lot of disassociation as we work through it.

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