"Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want."

-- Jeffrey Sachs

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“I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books.”
“If those we love visit us when we dream, those who torment us almost always visit us when we're still awake.”

Source : Alyson Richman (2011). “The Lost Wife”, p.206, Penguin
“I love ***** - Mary Jane - and you can print that! I smoke it every day and it's the greatest thing since ice cream and I'm not afraid to say it.”
“I find that when I tell lawyer jokes to a mixed audience, the lawyers don't think they're funny and the non-lawyers don't think they're jokes.”
“Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.”

Source : Interview with Kerry O'Brien on "Lateline", ABC TV, 1995.
“People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.”
“I liked that young man, did not you? There was something particularly pleasing about his manners, which I thought very easy and frank. He has an air of honest manliness, too, which, in these days of fribbles and counter-coxcombs, I own I find refreshing!”
“Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.”

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