"People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish to have existed in some distant past."

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Source : Gloria Whelan (2014). “Parade of Shadows”, p.16, Open Road Media

Gloria Whelan

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“I had been involved in animal welfare groups, but DDAL presented an opportunity to actually create and pass legislation aimed at issues which really matter to so many people. From local spaying and neutering ordinances, to legislation against puppy mills, to standards to prevent animals from being tested for the sake of a new cosmetic, we could - and did - make a difference.”
“Out of routine comes inspiration. That's the idea, anyway. To grasp what's exceptional, you first have to know what's routine.”
“Natural politicians are skilled actors, recreating reality, adjusting and ad-libbing, synthesizing the scenes, saying the same thing over and over again and making it seem that theyare saying it for the first time.”

Source : David Maraniss (1996). “First In His Class: A Biography Of Bill Clinton”, Simon & Schuster
“I think as a parent if you don't understand the perils of social media and what it does to kids, you're neglectful because it's probably the biggest polluter in a child's mind.”

Source : "Raine Maida On Raising Three Boys". Interview With Joel Balsam, www.askmen.com.
“A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?”
“The only thing even in this world is the number of hours in a day. The difference in winning or losing is what you do with those hours.”
“I had such a great mom and I know that I'd never be that mom. I wouldn't want to bring a child into this world unless I could be.”
“I can't for the life of me imagine that God would say, 'I will punish you because you are black; you should have been white. I will punish you because you are a woman; you should have been a man. I punish you because you are homosexual; you ought to have been heterosexual. I can't, I can't for the life of me believe that that is how God sees things.”

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