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Leo Rosten – Happiness comes only when we…

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“Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.” -Leo Rosten via 77Quotes.com https://ift.tt/2EnHDPS

Francois Hollande – My real adversary has no…

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“My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs – the adversary is the world of finance.” -Francois Hollande via 77Quotes.com https://ift.tt/2H4MPet

Frank Murphy – We would be false to…

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“We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights.” -Frank Murphy via 77Quotes.com https://ift.tt/2T78OZw

Barry Commoner – The modern assault on the…

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“The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.” -Barry Commoner via 77Quotes.com https://ift.tt/2EmcCvv

Doris Lessing – What really fascinates me is…

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“What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, ‘Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,’ reducing it to a simple formula.” -Doris Lessing via 77Quotes.com https://ift.tt/2HaFKJ5

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel – Novels are the Socratic dialogues…

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“Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.” -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel via 77Quotes.com https://ift.tt/2IIHImD

Michael J. Fox – Life is the power that’s…

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“Life is the power that’s greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature – that makes me humble.” -Michael J. Fox via 77Quotes.com https://ift.tt/2GShqMO

Maurice Strong – I am on the board…

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“I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations.” -Maurice Strong via 77Quotes.com https://ift.tt/2EkF2WW

George Will – I suppose there’s a melancholy…

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“I suppose there’s a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it’s the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.” -George Will via 77Quotes.com https://ift.tt/2T5yAwY

Hillary Clinton – I, for one, respect those…

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“I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be available.” -Hillary Clinton via 77Quotes.com https://ift.tt/2IIjRTT

Anne Bradstreet – Authority without wisdom is like…

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“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.” -Anne Bradstreet via 77Quotes.com https://ift.tt/2NE1bnq

Jackson Browne – I’ve also gotten to play…

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“I’ve also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament – it was about 1982 – they called it Peace Sunday.” -Jackson Browne via 77Quotes.com https://ift.tt/2EEQM7K

Albert Camus – Don’t believe your friends when…

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“Don’t believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.” -Albert Camus via 77Quotes.com https://ift.tt/2T8jN4P

Drew Barrymore – I’ve always said that one…

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“I’ve always said that one night, I’m going to find myself in some field somewhere, I’m standing on grass, and it’s raining, and I’m with the person I love, and I know I’m at the very point I’ve been dreaming of getting to.” -Drew Barrymore via 77Quotes.com https://ift.tt/2EpJvHR

Joseph Barber Lightfoot – The future is hidden by…

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“The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.” -Joseph Barber Lightfoot via 77Quotes.com https://ift.tt/2TltUmc

James Levine – It was just that we…

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“It was just that we had this phenomenal honeymoon relationship that just kept on going.” -James Levine via 77Quotes.com https://ift.tt/2GQUJZr

Jose Marti – He who receives money in…

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“He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.” -Jose Marti via 77Quotes.com https://ift.tt/2Nz47Bw

James Otis – It is a clear truth…

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“It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men’s liberty will soon care little for their own.” -James Otis via 77Quotes.com https://ift.tt/2GSTKYD

Denis Leary – I want you to take…

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“I want you to take away the hope because that’s the thing that’s killing me.” -Denis Leary via 77Quotes.com https://ift.tt/2Toixd4

Brooke Foss Westcott – Great occasions do not make…

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“Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak and at last some crisis shows what we have become.” -Brooke Foss Westcott via 77Quotes.com https://ift.tt/2SvtXqV

James Cameron – I was always fascinated by…

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“I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father’s respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things.” -James Cameron via 77Quotes.com https://ift.tt/2tKhOog

Ann Oakley – Clearly, society has a tremendous…

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“Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman’s natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.” -Ann Oakley via 77Quotes.com https://ift.tt/2EDJkdk

Trey Parker – In terms of the creative…

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“In terms of the creative side of it, it’s really been a thing where you come up with the funny stuff is usually at a bar or out talking to people or whatever.” -Trey Parker via 77Quotes.com https://ift.tt/2GTYRI4

Tom Colicchio – There’s the issue of hunger…

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“There’s the issue of hunger, and there’s an issue of if you’re going to cut out food programs. We should be focusing on healthy food. Right now, fruits and vegetables are very expensive. So what can we do on the policy side to bring the cost of fruits and vegetables down?” -Tom Colicchio via 77Quotes.com https://ift.tt/2NCHM5X

Rosie O’Donnell – The equality that we are…

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“The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can’t be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who’s is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn’t.” -Rosie O’Donnell via 77Quotes.com https://ift.tt/2BWKRsY