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I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Be The First Communist First Guy Reverse Revolution Want

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The Obama administration rarely demonstrated the ability to shift gears and change policy in its first year. Even in the face of historic events such as the continuing demonstrations against Iran's regime, it stuck devotedly to prior plans.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Ability Administration Against Change Continuing Demonstrations Even Events Face First Gears Historic Iran Obama Obama Administration Plans Policy Prior Rarely Regime Shift Stuck Year

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Moammar Gaddafi, who has called himself the 'Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,' should go down in history with the Emperor Bokassa and Idi Amin as a grotesque reminder of why people have the right to change their government.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Arab Change Down Emperor First Go Government Great Grotesque Guide Himself History People Reminder Revolution Right September Should Socialist Who Why

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I first met Kim Dae Jung when he was a Korean dissident whose life was threatened by the military regime ruling in Seoul. I was Ronald Reagan's Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, and Kim was directed to me because the East Asia Bureau at the State Department had long shunned him.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Asia Assistant Because Bureau Department Directed East East Asia First Had He Him Human Human Rights Kim Korean Life Long Me Met Military Reagan Regime Rights Ruling Secretary State State Department Threatened Whose

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Believe it or not, the first spark for everything I've done today came down to me meeting one person in college who changed my life. A student named Anthony Adams who lived across the hall from me in our freshman dorm showed me what it meant to be an 'entrepreneur' when I saw him launch his own start-up company.

~Elliott Bisnow

Topics: Across Believe Came Changed College Company Done Dorm Down Entrepreneur Everything First Freshman Hall Him His Launch Life Lived Me Meant Meant To Be Meeting My Life Named Our Own Person Saw Spark Start-Up Student Today Who

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My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me.

~Elliott Carter

Topics: About After Always Around Before Born Entire Entire Life First First World First World War Important Just Known Life Me Most Music Really Time War World World War Written I Was Born

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Growing up, I can remember singing along with my ma all of the time. I wouldn't say she necessarily 'taught' me how to sing, but she was definitely the first person to inspire me to sing and the first to intrigue me vocally. I've always had a natural ear for music, though.

~Elliott Yamin

Topics: Along Always Definitely Ear First Growing Growing Up Had How Inspire Intrigue Ma Me Music Natural Necessarily Person Remember Say She Sing Singing Taught Though Time Up I Can

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Music's something you feel. You have to feel it first before you hear it.

~Elliott Yamin

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From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment.

~Ellsworth Huntington

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One of the first drawings I did in Paris - I wasn't thinking of doing drawings, but somehow or other, I kept drawing - I bought a hyacinth flower with a lot of leaves, just to make me feel like spring.

~Ellsworth Kelly

Topics: Bought Did Doing Drawing Drawings Feel First Flower Just Kept Leaves Like Lot Make Me Other Paris Somehow Spring Thinking

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