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She had not won a clean victory. Tinkering with time and history offended her political sensibilities. History was written in the stones. It was not a numinous thing to be tossed sparkling in the air to lie where it fell. She did not like to think of her life and world as a mere mutability of potentials.

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Legends should stay legends; otherwise they just become history, when the natural course of things is the other way around, from history to legend.

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Born: March 31, 1960 (age 65)
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