"Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure ... no wonder it's been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country."

-- Bella Abzug

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“What's happening with the planet's climate right now needs to be a wake-up call to all of us, meaning all heads of state, all heads of social organizations, in order to take a more energetic approach to countering the global changes to the climate.”

Source : "Will Russia's Heat Wave End Its Global-Warming Doubts?". content.time.com. August 2, 2010.
“At the very simplest, I think as Van Gogh said and St Francis would have said, we must find nature. Just to be in the presence of nature your feelings and 'little seedlings' start to awake. So if we disassociate ourselves from God we cut nature out, too. More and more we turn nature into a commodity, into eco-tourism. But we must integrate it into the way people live every day.”
“I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above.”
“The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching.”
“To say I removes a false impression of a Jovian aloofness.”

Source : Jerome Frank (1973). “Courts on Trial: Myth and Reality in American Justice”, p.8, Princeton University Press
“Snooki and Honey Boo Boo. These are big celebrities in the U.S. You want to throw up.”
“I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.”
“Preach Christ or nothing: don't dispute or discuss except with your eye on the cross.”

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