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“And there are men behind bars who pray for the light and there are men in the suburbs who pray for the night.”
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“In fact, we haven't ever really recalibrated our foreign policy commitments since the end of the Cold War. We still have alliances throughout Asia and across Europe that were devised to tame the Soviet Union, which, last time I checked, ceased to exist more than 20 years ago. Today, of course, we have a commitment to go to nuclear war with Russia in case Russia invades Latvia. To me, that's complete and utter nonsense. There ought to be a reconsideration of our posture in every region of the world.”
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“The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.”
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“The kind of corruption the media talk about, the kind the Supreme Court was concerned about, involves the putative sale of votes in exchange for campaign contributions.”
Source : James L. Buckley (2010). “Freedom at Risk: Reflections on Politics, Liberty, and the State”, p.244, ReadHowYouWant.com
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“I have the impression that when we talk so confidently of liberty, we are unaware of the awful ... servitude of poverty when means are so small that there is literally no choice at all ...”
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“There's something to be said for embracing who you are.”
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“My future is bright and beautiful.”
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“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
Source : "The Writing Life". Book by Annie Dillard, 1989.
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“I think the obvious answer is I was raised in New York City, so growing up, not only myself but my family, like my father, we would watch a lot of Scorsese films.”
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“What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.”
Source : bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom”, p.53, Routledge
