Perhaps the fires through which I had passed would have a purifying effect on me, just as a blast furnace burns the impurities out of steel. (Clarence Thomas)

Perhaps the fires through which I had passed would have a purifying effect on me, just as a blast furnace burns the impurities out of steel.

Clarence Thomas

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