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Perspectives.(Quotation)
Byline: Quotation sources: Reuters, The Guardian, Times Of London, New York Times, Reuters
"The first thing that came to my mind was, 'I'm pretty lucky'."
Sixty-eight-year-old Don Frick , who was enjoying a festival in Pennsylvania on July 27 when he was hit by a bolt of lightning for the second time, 27 years to the day after the first strike
"This isn't the 15th century. You can't go around the world and just plant flags and say 'We're claiming this territory'."
Canadian Foreign Minister Peter MacKay , on the voyage of the Mir sub that dived 14,000 feet down to plant a Russian flag on the seabed directly under the North Pole
"I would like to think I will go on to do good things in my life."
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