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“A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.”
Source : "Voter Suppression Is Treasonous" by Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2012. 
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“You may be sitting in a room reading this book. Imagine one note struck upon the piano. Immediately that one note is enough to change the atmosphere of the room - proving that the sound element in music is a powerful and mysterious agent, which it would be foolish to deride or belittle.”
Source : Aaron Copland (2011). “What to Listen For in Music”, p.23, Penguin
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“In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman.”
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“All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.”
Source : "An Open Letter to the State of Alabama" by Adam McKay, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2010.
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“We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if sound, the spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.”
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“[George] Uhlenbeck was a highly gifted physicist. One of his remarkable traits was he would read every issue of T%he Physical Review from cover to cover.”
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“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”
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“In the middle of nowhere, along a quiet stretch of road, the diner dreamt of the hungry dead. And of two men.”
Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.7, Macmillan
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“If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.”
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“What's so great about television. You're able to tell a long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.”
