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Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

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She'd run her life according to the Prophecies and now there were no more Prophecies. She must be feeling like a train which had reached the end of the line but still had to keep going, somehow. From now on she'd be able to go through life with everything coming as a surprise, just like everyone else. What luck. Neil Gaiman
But the approach to recording this album was kind of an organized, chaotic approach where I wanted to maintain and preserve that wild abandon to creating. Vanessa Carlton
It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read, if they can have any thing else to amuse them. Samuel Johnson
I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay. Bette Davis
Curtis Sittenfeld quote: "When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing..."
When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs. Curtis Sittenfeld
Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present. Alan Watts
Paddy Ashdown quote: "I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to..."
I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war. Paddy Ashdown
I went to Montreal. My first gig went very badly. They just weren't laughing at anything. I found out they were a load of Christians, and it was a gig to raise money for a new church roof. Allan Carr
Jean Alesi quote: "I was quite excited, but I was sure I wouldn't win the race. I..."
I was quite excited, but I was sure I wouldn't win the race. I am a realist. Jean Alesi
I work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog some days because I'm just not here enough. I just feel like I would do a bad job if I took the time to literally give birth to a kid right now and try and juggle everything I'm doing. Rachael Ray
Like I said, I've got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn't mean you can't support them emotionally and financially. Sylvester Stallone
Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lots of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. Robert Kennedy
We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes. Better to leave that money in the pockets of those who earned it, than to let it burn a hole, as it always does, in the pockets of government. Mitch Daniels
You mentioned Ross Perot. Mr. Perot jumped into the race at the last minute, had one issue that he ran on, the budget deficit, was in and out of the race a couple of times, and still got 20 million votes, didn't have the Internet. Hamilton Jordan
Jane Austen quote: "And to all this she must yet add something more substantial,..."
And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading. Jane Austen