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You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism. ~Erma Bombeck

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better. ~Albert Camus

Liberty is the breath of life to nations. ~George Bernard Shaw

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. ~William Faulkner

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Holden:  “You know that song, ‘If a body catch a body comin’ through the rye’?…”
Phoebe:  “It’s ‘If a body meet a body coming through the rye’!… It’s a poem.  By Robert Burns.”
~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 22

I mean most girls are so dumb and all.  After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing their brains.  You take a girl when she really gets passionate, she just hasn’t any brains.  ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 13

It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.  ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 1

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“A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.”

Ernest Hemingway

“Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast, Is that portentous phrase, ‘I told you so”

Lord Byron

“The Bat that flits at close of Eve
Has left the Brain that won’t believe.
The Owl that calls upon the Night
Speaks the Unbeliever’s fright.”

William Blake

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