"As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world."

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Source : "We Can’t Take the Internet for Granted" by Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 16, 2011.

Ron Wyden

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“PETA is such an important cause to me. The mistreatment of animals is something that just really gets me. I feel it's really the most important part of what I do. Don't Eat Meat! Don't Wear Fur! I mean, there are so many other options these days.”
“I am not a political person. My involvement in the Free Speech Movement is religious and moral... I don't know what made me get up and give that first speech. I only know I had to. What was it Kierkegaard said about free acts? They're the ones that, looking back, you realize you couldn't help doing.”

Source : "The University Has Become a Factory". Interview with Jack Fincher, Life magazine, February 26, 1965.
“We are three countries that emerged from the former Yugoslavia - countries that are now in transition and must cooperate with each other, because our economies depend on each other.”
“I studied medicine so I could help others - set a leg or whatever - and it's given me a great deal of satisfaction.”
“I remember old Elvis when he forgot to remember to forget.”
“In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively”

Source : James Schuyler (2004). “Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951-1991”
“Feed and strengthen your body. Fear is physical. When you lift weights or go for a sprint, that energy flows back into your body and restores you to certainty.”
“I was like many another who starts an intrigue timidly. Once into it, I had to go on, and therefore I had to harden my sensibilities.”

Source : Elizabeth Borton de Treviño, Prentice Hall PTR, Prentice-Hall, inc (2000). “I, Juan de Pareja”

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