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" Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them. "
Jose Marti
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" Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all. "
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