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  "text": "We give our dead\n\nTo the orchards\n\nAnd the groves.\n\nWe give our dead\n\nTo life.",
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      "text": "Consider—\n\nWe are born\n\nNot with purpose,\n\nBut with potential.",
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      "text": "“I’m not a demagogue.”\n\n“That’s too bad. That leaves the field to people who are demagogues—to the Jarrets of the world. And there have always been Jarrets. Probably there always will be.”",
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