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Margaret Atwood quote: "we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people..."
...we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing. Margaret Atwood
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Gouverneur Morris
Larry J. Sabato quote: "Every election is determined by the people who show up."
Every election is determined by the people who show up. Larry J. Sabato
And yet even among the friends of liberty, many people are deceived into believing that government can make them safe from all harm, provide fairly distributed economic security, and improve individual moral behavior. If the government is granted a monopoly on the use of force to achieve these goals, history shows that power is always abused. Every single time. Ron Paul
Victor Borge quote: "The shortest distance between two people is a smile."
The shortest distance between two people is a smile. Victor Borge
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same Adlai E. Stevenson
He did not want an affair with his boss. He did not even want a one-night stand. Because what always happened was that people found out, gossip at the water cooler, meaningful looks in the hallway. And sooner or later the spouses found out. It always happened. Slammed doors, divorce lawyers, child custody. Michael Crichton
You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved. Ansel Adams
How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. An artist is emotional, they think, and uses only his intuition; he sees all at once and has no need of reason. A scientist is cold, they think, and uses only his reason; he argues carefully step by step, and needs no imagination. That is all wrong. The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. The true... Isaac Asimov
I suppose all of my films have a common theme. If I think about it, though, the only theme I can think of is really a question: Why can’t people be happier together? Akira Kurosawa
Humanity, let us say, is like people packed in an automobile which is traveling downhill without lights at terrific speed and driven by a four-year-old child. The signposts along the way are all marked 'Progress. Lord Dunsany
You cannot, it seems, let children run about the streets. People who have seen them running wild in Russia say that the sight is not a pleasant one. Virginia Woolf
The world is crammed with delightful things. I think young people make such a mistake about that? not letting themselves be happy. I sometimes think that happiness is the only thing that counts. Virginia Woolf
Colleen McCullough quote: "We're working-class people, which means we don't get rich or..."
We're working-class people, which means we don't get rich or have maids. Be content with what you are and what you have. Colleen McCullough
I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. WE'RE not. I look in the library, I call up books on my desk. Old ones, because they won't let us have anything new, but I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares. Children aren't in armies, they aren't COMMANDERS, they don't rule over forty other kids, it's more than anybody can take and not get crazy. Orson Scott Card

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