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  • Florence Griffith-Joyner The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.
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  • Amy Goodman The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.
    Amy Goodman
    American broadcast journalist, columnist and author (1957 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Earl Nightingale The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • Javan The pain we feel When someone leaves our life is in direct proportion to the joy they bring while a part of our life for a few moments. In my life you made me feel as if I truly meant something to someone
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  • C. L. R. James The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Bill Richardson The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override both Islamic fundamentalism that has formed in that region, and also some of the hatred for our policies of invading Iraq.
    Bill Richardson
    American politician, author, and diplomat (1947 - )
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Vince Lombardi The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Audre Lorde The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Bette Davis The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Abba Goold Woolson The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other.
    Abba Goold Woolson
    American writer (0 - 1921)
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  • Benjamin Graham The Reservoir plan is and engineering mechanism applied to the field of economics, and in its essence it has nothing to do with democracy or any other political philosophy.
    Storage and Stability Part V, Ch. XIX, The Reservoir Plan and Tradition,
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Denis Waitley The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Calvin Coolidge The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Ben Gibbard The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won't.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Grover Cleveland The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.
    Grover Cleveland
    American politician and lawyer (1837 - 1908)
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  • Mikhail Gorbachev The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.
    Mikhail Gorbachev
    Russian and former Soviet politician (1931 - )
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  • Aung San Suu Kyi The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.
    Aung San Suu Kyi
    Burmese politician (1945 - )
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  • Byron Dorgan The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't.
    Byron Dorgan
    American author, businessman (1942 - )
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