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The very fact of snow is such an amazement.

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Roger Ebert
Age: 70 †
Born: 1942
Born: June 18
Died: 2013
Died: April 4
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Roger Joseph Ebert
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I am proudly a liberal. I am also patriotic, reasonable, pro-American, and stand for family values.
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The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His.
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An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.
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I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.
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The ability of so many people to live comfortably with the idea of capital punishment is perhaps a clue to how so many Europeans were able to live with the idea of the Holocaust: Once you accept the notion that the state has the right to kill someone and the right to define what is a capital crime, aren't you halfway there?
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