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  • Bryant Gumbel This comes at a time when Republicans are looking to gut the Clean Water Act and also the Safe Drinking Water Act. What are our options? Are we now forced to boil water because bottled water is not an economically feasible option for a lot of people?
    Bryant Gumbel
    American television journalist and sportscaster (1948 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw This comes of James teaching me to think for myself, and never to hold back out of fear of what other people may think of me. It works beautifully as long as I think the same things as he does.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Abraham Lincoln This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Beeban Kidron This idea of the digital native in the bedroom taking down a fascist regime and building a billion-dollar company is a very attractive image, but actually, if you look at the research, young people are on the lowest rung of digital opportunity.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Rita Mae Brown This is a celebration of individual freedom, not of homosexuality. No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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  • Sebastian Faulks This is how most people live: alive, but not conscious; conscious but not aware; aware, but intermittently.
    Source: Engleby (2007)
    Sebastian Faulks
    British novelist, journalist and broadcaster (1953 - )
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  • Betty Carter This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of something. He doesn't have confidence in himself or else he doesn't believe in what he's doing.
    Betty Carter
    American jazz singer (1929 - 1998)
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  • Butch Trucks This is show business, and there's room for the shows and the personalities. But I think there's also room for music, for people to play music, and there seems to be an audience developing that's willing to go listen to music again, rather than just be blown away by drum machines and choreography.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Beau Willimon This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to be bastions of moral integrity, perfect people, saints. And on the other hand, we want them to be effective leaders.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht This is the year which people will talk about
    This is the year which people will be silent about. The old see the young die.
    The foolish see the wise die. The earth no longer produces, it devours.
    The sky hurls down no rain, only iron.
    Source: Poems, 1913-1956 Finland 1940 [Finnland 1940] (1940), trans. Sammy
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Carl Sagan This planet is run by crazy people. Remember what they have to do to get where they are. Their perspective is so narrow, so...brief. A few years. In the best of them a few decades. They care only about the time they are in power.
    Source: Contact (1985) Ch. 23 (p. 403)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Buddy Wakefield This poem may have meant nothing to you but I am confident that tonight my taking the time to actually write out my anger instead of acting on it has saved the life of at least eleven people in parking enforcement.
    Source: Poetry Flare Guns and Earthquakes
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Austan Goolsbee This recession is the deepest in our lifetimes, the deepest since 1929. If you take the people thrown out of work in the 1982 recession, the 1991 recession, the 2001 recession, not only is this bigger, this is bigger than all of those combined.
    Austan Goolsbee
    American economist (1969 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Arthur Golden This time all the historical details and things were right. But I'd written it again in third person, and people found it dry. I decided to throw that one away.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • Doris Lessing This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we -we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • C. S. Lewis This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.
    Source: Mere Christianity (1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Cate Blanchett Those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films with women at the center are niche experiences - they are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Ben Carson Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have no difficulty whatsoever defining where our ethics come from. People who believe in survival of the fittest might have more difficulty deriving where their ethics come from. A lot of evolutionists are very ethical people.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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