"I sometimes wish the trade unionists who work in the mass media, those who are writers and broadcasters and secretaries and printers and lift operators of Thomson House would remember that they too are members of our working class movement and have a responsibility to see that what is said about us is true."

-- Tony Benn

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“Trust that you often need to find happiness outside your comfort zone. The journey is a lifestyle choice. Focus on your mental health and your mind just as much as the physical, if not more. All the gym in the world won't help if you don't work on finding acceptance for your muffin top or chaffing thighs.”

Source : Source: www.popsugar.com
“... from Russia I didn't bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror ...”
“I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left home when he was 15 and found his way to the gym. It gave me the opportunity to go and spend some time with him and work out in the gym.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Of course, my family has been a big reason for me to come back, especially my son who loves the game of hockey - he was a big reason for me coming back.”
“A lot of people look at me as a big person. Some people consider me to be obese. Some people consider me fat and sloppy. Everybody knows that I have a big stomach, but I think sometimes that overshadows everything else on my body - from my calves to my back to my shoulders to my biceps. What people go to the gym and work for, I have. The only thing I don't have that they got is six - packs. But I really don't care about six-packs.”
“The story of America is necessarily one of progress because if it's not than it's a stale story where we have not risen above Klansmen.”

Source : "We Love America, and You Should, Too". Interview with James West, Ben Dreyfuss, www.motherjones.com. July 3, 2015.
“I didn't cheer in high school. I was the farthest thing from a cheerleader in high school. We made fun of cheerleaders. Everybody did!”

Source : "Co-stars 'Fired Up' over cheerleading". Orlando Sentinel interview, articles.chicagotribune.com. February 20, 2009.
“I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon law and upon courts. These are false hopes, believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there it needs no constitution, no law, no courts to save it.”

Source : "The Spirit of Liberty" (speech), New York, N.Y., 21 May 1944

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