"The government's assertion that it must be unhindered in protecting our security can camouflage the desire to increase Executive power, while the press's cry of the public's right to know can mask a quest for competitive advantage or a hidden animus. Neither the need to protect our security nor the public's right to know is a blank check."

-- Richard Stengel

#Government Quotes #Desire Quotes #Needs Quotes

“We have to be careful in this era of radical feminism, not to emphasize an equality of the sexes that leads women to imitate men to prove their equality. To be equal does not mean you have to be the same.”
“I go shopping maybe three times a year in an intense way. I'm like a man. Can't spend too much time in a shop.”
“Everything we did was done in form and with propriety, and the result of our proceedings is the document [the Quebec Resolutions] that has been submitted to the imperial government as well as to this house and which we speak of here as a treaty. And that there may be no doubt about our position in regard to that document we say, question it you may, reject it you may, or accept it you may, but alter it you may not.”
“The message was that .. fathers can go ahead and have children, but they don't have to raise the children.”
“The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of the influenza or Spanish Plague which occurred in her twentieth year, she was discovered to possess every art and grace save that of earning her own living.”

Source : Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Perhaps making movies is a step toward being able to move backward and forward and in and out of linear time.”

Source : Eleanor Coppola (1979). “Notes”, Simon & Schuster
“Pain redeems all. It is the awareness of life, a reminder of death.”

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