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Haiti and the Dominican Republic don't just share an island, Hispaniola, but a history, one that includes all the signal events that went into creating the modern world: Columbus, conquest, genocide, slavery, imperial war, revolution, and U.S. counterinsurgencies and military occupations.

Greg Grandin

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As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North American southern behaviors and notions in reference to the inhumanity of people. There were questions that I did not know how to ask but could, in my young, unsophisticated way, articulate a series of answers.

John Henrik Clarke

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Quality is the Buddha.

Robert M. Pirsig

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I've been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice.

Matthew Perry

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The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law.

Jeffery Deaver

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Well, yeah, I sang to some songs on the radio or in the shower.

Stephen Malkmus

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Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result.

Tommy Armour

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I quit 'Magnum' to have a family. It took a long time to get off the train, but I try very hard to have balance, and this ranch has helped me do that.

Tom Selleck

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Years go by. I go here, I go there, I have all sorts of adventures, and then I look back and say, 'Wow that's kind of an unusual way to live your life.'

Roman Coppola

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A simple scoop-neck leotard highlights a ballerina's swanlike neck and elegant posture, both rooted in a powerful core.

Mary Helen Bowers

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I worked through cancer twice. I probably worked through it too much the last time. This time, I found myself saying, 'Well, I don't feel well. I think I'll take the day off.' I think I did that even a little bit more than I needed to.

Molly Ivins

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Joseph Heller

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We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable.

Derek Jacobi

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