"The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy."

-- Alice Rivlin

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“The last speaker alluded to this movement as being that of a few disappointed women. From the first years to which my memory stretches, I have been a disappointed woman.... I was disappointed when I came to seek a profession worthy an immortal being--every employment was closed to me, except those of the teacher, the seamstress, and the housekeeper. In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of woman. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer.”

Source : Remark at a National Woman's Rights Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1855. "Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings" by Miriam Schnier, 1972.
“I rarely accept things on blind faith, especially the orthodoxy of any given practice, or any given practicum. I'm like, "Oh come on. Is this the way to do things?"”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them, and they make us despair in losing them.”

Source : "A Mother's Advice to Her Daughter". Book by Anne Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, 1728.
“The third year of MASH was when I realized I was a hit.”
“The essence of good government is trust.”
“The belief that life on earth arose spontaneously from nonliving matter, is simply a matter of faith in strict reductionism and is based entirely on ideology.”
“I've never left music behind, but I've had success in television.”
“Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.”

Source : "Salem Falls". Book by Jodi Picoult (Page 112), www.huffingtonpost.com. 2001.

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