"We have ample scientific evidence that this is the wrong step to take. For example -- this is only a portion of the SARS Commission Report from 2006 that clearly and explicitly states that the use of surgical masks instead of respirators did not protect nurses from SARS, which is a similar coronavirus to SARS-COV-2, which is the virus that causes COVID-19."

Jane Thomason, National Nurses United COVID-19 Press Conference Remarks

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"Our men in uniform are like the college football players. While the struggle is impending, they are observing the rules of training that they may be fit to fight. But when the game has been won, the temptation to break training and make up for the restraints of the past months and years will be a mighty one."

John D. Rockefeller, Jr., War Campaign Address

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"I want the American people to know this truth: The FBI is honest. The FBI is strong. And the FBI is, and always will be, independent."

James Comey, Senate Intelligence Committee Hearing, 8 June 2017

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"Wherever you are tonight, you can make it. Hold your head high. Stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes; but the morning comes. Don't you surrender! Suffering breeds character; character breeds faith; in the end faith will not disappoint. You must not surrender!"

Jesse Jackson, 1988 Democratic National Convention Address

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"We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community. We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present -- unemployment, inflation -- but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America."

Barbara Jordan, 1976 Democratic Convention Keynote Address

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"You're afraid to bleed. I said you're afraid to bleed. [As] long as the white man sent you to Korea, you bled. He sent you to Germany, you bled. He sent you to the South Pacific to fight the Japanese, you bled. You bleed for white people. But when it comes time to seeing your own churches being bombed and little black girls be murdered, you haven't got no blood."

Malcolm X, Message to the Grassroots

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"Arachnids from all three groups possess various strengths which help them in their constant search for food. For example, The Delana spider, family Sparassidae, has the ability to jump to catch its prey."

from the movie Spider-Man

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"Good evening. Elvis Presley died today. He was 42. Apparently, it was a heart attack. He was found in his home in Memphis not breathing. His road manager tried to revive him -- he failed. A hospital tried to revive him -- it failed. His doctor pronounced him dead at three o'clock this afternoon.

NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor and David Brinkley

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"Can anyone look at the record of this Administration and say, 'Well done?' Can anyone compare the state of our economy when the Carter Administration took office with where we are today and say, 'Keep up the good work?' Can anyone look at our reduced standing in the world today and say, 'Let's have four more years of this?'"

Ronald Reagan, 1980 Republican National Convention Acceptance Address

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"Somewhere at this very moment a child is being born in America. Let it be our cause to give that child a happy home, a healthy family, and a hopeful future."

Bill Clinton, 1992 Democratic National Convention Acceptance Address

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Repeating the beginning of a sentence or phrase at the beginning of the next sentence or phrase

Repeating the end of a sentence or phrase at the beginning of the next sentence or phrase

Repeating the end of a sentence or phrase at the end of the next sentence or phrase

Juxtaposing two contrasting ideas

Saying something unpleasant in a more pleasant way; sometimes called "politically correct" speech

Giving a specific example to make a point

Asking a question without expecting an answer

Using part of something to represent the whole thing or vice versa

Continued metaphor or simile that ends with a conclusion about one of the items being compared

Repeating consonant sounds at the beginning of words