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• I'm sort of fascinated by America's fascination with rednecks, the whole Duck Dynasty thing. Being a white guy from the South, I find it amazing that so many TV viewers are enchanted by beards, bad dentistry and moonshine accents.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Redneck, Ducks, White

  "'True-life Source Material Is Fabulously Bizarre' - Carl Hiaasen Answers Our Questions about 'Razor Girl'". Interview with Adrian Liang, www.omnivoracious.com. September 8, 2016.

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• Additionally, I will be respectfully asking countries, such as Germany, Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, to pay more for the tremendous security we provide them.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Japan, Korea

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The politicians in Washington just had no idea about the complexity of the situation in South Vietnam.

  William Westmoreland

  Ideas, Vietnam, Politician

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• In 1982, when Alexander Haig and [Ariel] Sharon put this plan to invade the south of Lebanon and Beirut, they imagined that in two or three or five days, they can demolish the PLO and destroy its infrastructure. What happened? The longest Arab - Israeli confrontation.

  Yasser Arafat

  Two, Lebanon, Three

  Source: www.nybooks.com

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• With Singapore's partnership, the United States in engaging more deeply across South-east Asia and Asean, which is central to the region's peace and prosperity. Singapore is an anchor for the US presence in the region, which is a foundation of stability and peace.

  Barack Obama

  Anchors, Foundation, United States

  Source: www.straitstimes.com

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• Singapore was the very first South-east Asian nation to join the global coalition against ISIL (ISIS) coalition, and we'll work to sustain our momentum in destroying that terrorist organisation.

  Barack Obama

  Isis, Asian, East

  Source: www.straitstimes.com

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• Over the past eight years, the United States has worked hard to deepen partnerships across the region and across South-east Asia in particular. We're now a part of the East Asia Summit and we have a strategic partnership with Asean. At the US-Asean Leaders Summit I hosted earlier this year in Sunnylands, California, we agreed to a set of principles that will shape the future peace and prosperity of the region, from promoting innovation and furthering economic integration to addressing transnational challenges like global health security and climate change.

  Barack Obama

  Past, Eight, Years

  Source: www.straitstimes.com

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• The Philippines made a lawful and peaceful effort to resolve their maritime claims with China using the tribunal established under the Law of the Sea Convention (Unclos). The tribunal's ruling delivered a clear and legally binding decision on maritime claims in the South China Sea as they relate to China and the Philippines - and that ruling should be respected. We believe this decision can and should serve as an opportunity to renew efforts to address maritime claims peacefully.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Opportunity, Sea

  Source: www.straitstimes.com

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• We are still learning how exactly the Earth reacts to increased CO2 and other greenhouse gases. We know it leads to warming seas which are melting the North and the South Poles, rising and starting to swallow entire coastal areas in the US and elsewhere, as the New York Times article documents.

  Graciela Chichilnisky

  New York, Sea, Rising

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.

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• The Fourteenth Amendment, after the civil war, in principle brought former slaves into the category of persons, theoretically. But if you actually look, almost all the cases brought up for personal rights under the Fourteenth Amendment were by corporations. Freed slaves couldn't do it. In fact they were pretty much driven back into something like slavery by a north - south compact, that allowed former slave states to criminalize black life, which made a criminal force that was basically used as a forced labor force, up until the 1930s.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Labor Force, Rights

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• And then you're going to have a president whose business empire depends on sort of delivering certain policies. For example, one thing that was quoted in the Newsweek report - that his [Donald Trump] pushing policies of nuclear arms for South Korea would actually improve his business network.

  Jill Stein

  Korea, President, Arms

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• I get goose-bumps when you talk about Diane Wilson. Who knows where she found that courage? When she was a child, she would crawl under the bed when a stranger came to the house. But in 1989, she found out that her county in south Texas was ranked worst in the country for toxic waste. She wondered if the effluent, dumped into the waters where she and her family had shrimped for generations, might be responsible for the dwindling fish populations. And she suspected that her son's autism might be related to the pollution.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Country, Children, Son

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• There's something really cool about being able to fly to South Africa and watch one of the most talented African footballers wearing a shoe on the field.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Shoes, Watches, Able

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I never thought my granny, somebody that was born down South, who witnessed America when it was segregated, would see, in her lifetime, an African-American in office as the President of the United States. It's major, it's a real historic day.

  Nipsey Hussle

  Real, America, Office

  Source: djbooth.net

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• Nuclear is the single greatest threat. Just to go down the list, we defend Japan, we defend Germany, we defend South Korea, we defend Saudi Arabia, we defend countries. They do not pay us. But they should be paying us, because we are providing tremendous service and we're losing a fortune. That's why we're losing - we're losing - we lose on everything. I say, who makes these - we lose on everything.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Japan, Korea

  Donald Trump's speech at the first 2016 Trump-Clinton presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, moderated by anchor of NBC Nightly News Lester Holt, www.nbcnews.com. September 26, 2016.

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• We're a country that owes $20 trillion. They [Japan, Germany, South Korea, Saudi Arabia] have to help us out.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Japan, Korea

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• When you look at Harlem - and I lived there almost five years - most of the people who live in Harlem are transplants. They migrate to Harlem from another place. A lot of them are from the south, so they bring those southern influences with them.

  Mike Colter

  Years, People, Southern

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Most of the people you look at in the early days of Harlem - the zoot suits, the music, the style of fashion, the vibrant colors - that's all influences from the south.

  Mike Colter

  Fashion, Color, People

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• South Sudan is the youngest nation on the planet.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Planets, Nations, Sudan

  Interview with Benedict Cumberbatch, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2016.

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• There is so much poverty and desperation in South Sudan, and yet each side is militarily equipped.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Poverty, Sides, Desperation

  Interview with Benedict Cumberbatch, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2016.

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• I can still go grocery shopping and not get mobbed. But when I was in South Africa this summer, I had people asking for autographs, and that scared me.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Summer, Shopping, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• When the students in the South, the blacks, started demonstrating, that was the beginning of the time of students becoming a social force around the world.

  Tom Hayden

  World, Becoming, Students

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Japan, Germany, South Korea, these are very rich, powerful countries. Saudi Arabia, nothing but money. We Americans protect Saudi Arabia. Why aren't they paying?

  Donald Trump

  Country, Powerful, Japan

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• We Americans have to tell Japan in a very nice way, we have to tell Germany, all of these countries, South Korea, we have to say, you have to help us out.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Nice, Japan

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• The United States has been an immigrant country. The Hispanics who come here are largely from Mexico and South America. They are Catholics, but that is an American religion. One-third of our population is Catholic so that does not have the same impact as Muslims coming into Europe.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Country, Impact, Europe

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. 2006.

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