"If you give up on politics, you're giving up on democracy. And if you give up on democracy, you're basically saying to the moneyed interests, the powerful people and institutions of society, take it all. That's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Then we give up. Then we are 100 percent plutocracy."

-- Robert Reich

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“Avoid all controversy in preaching, talking, or writing; preach nothing down but the devil, and nothing up but Jesus Christ.”
“With Ameen Rihani the matter is diametrically opposite to Alois Musil's Arabian Desert, in purpose, in point of view and, above all, in personal psychology... I have considerable admiration for Mr. Rihani as a writer, an authentic poet and a philosopher.”
“If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.”
“I went to a theater arts school, so I'm interested in many different projects, whether it be film, television or even live theater. I'm a performer. That's what I do. That's what I want to do.”

Source : Source: www.acclaimmag.com
“There are many ways to be a mother. I have a lot of young actors I mentor, and my nieces and my nephews need a lot of love.”
“I have said I will not work with the parliamentary party in Strasbourg again but of course I will continue to be a member of UKIP.”

Source : "Kilroy resigns Ukip whip" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2004.
“The only shape in which equality is really connected with justice is this - justice presupposes general rules. If these general rules are to be maintained at all, it is obvious that they must be applied equally to every case which satisfies their terms.”

Source : Sir James Fitzjames Stephen (1874). “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”, p.215
“She is a woman of honour and smartness whose wild leaves out luck, always taking risks, and there is something in her brow now, that only she can recognize in a mirror. Ideal and idealistic in that shiny dark hair! People fall in love with her. She is a woman I donâ€™t know well enough to hold in my wing, if writers have wings, to harbour for the rest of my life.”

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