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"ref": "1884, Hezekiah Butterworth, Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands, page 48",
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"ref": "1888 August, R.W. Young, “The Nauvoo Legion”, in The Contributor, volume 9, number 10, page 369",
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"ref": "1926, Mildred Lewis Rutherford, Miss Rutherford's Scrap Book, page 16",
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"ref": "1984, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture, Long-term Farm Policy to Succeed the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981, page 94",
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"ref": "2015, Ralph Hassig, Kongdan Oh, The Hidden People of North Korea, page 32",
"text": "We must put spurs to the general onward march for glorifying this meaningful year [2012, the one hundredth anniversary of Kim Il-sung's birth and the year when North Korea was supposed to become a kangsong taeguk or “great power”].",
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},
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},
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},
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"ref": "1899, Great Britain. Public Record Office, Calendar of Letters and State Papers Relating to English Affairs, page 85",
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},
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},
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"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "1984, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture, Long-term Farm Policy to Succeed the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981, page 94",
"text": "In this regard, it is most important that the Government get its macroeconomic house in order, balance the budget, and put spurs to exports rather than imports.",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "2015, Ralph Hassig, Kongdan Oh, The Hidden People of North Korea, page 32",
"text": "We must put spurs to the general onward march for glorifying this meaningful year [2012, the one hundredth anniversary of Kim Il-sung's birth and the year when North Korea was supposed to become a kangsong taeguk or “great power”].",
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