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I have been called the most powerful woman in the world, but I have on occasion lacked even the power of speech, because although we have crossed the threshold into a new century, there are still too many questions for which we have no answers.

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Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.

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The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine.

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Stolen sweets are best.

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My dreams were all my own; I accounted them to nobody; They were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

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It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

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Fools rush in and get the best seats.

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Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

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What then is the American, this new man? He is either an European, or the descendant of an European, hence that strange misture of blood, which you will find in no other country. I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a french woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations. He is an American.

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Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

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