"I am not second-guessing or questioning my understanding of the issue"

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Source : "A Mother's Denial, a Daughter's Death" by Charles Ornstein and Daniel Costello, articles.latimes.com. September 24, 2005.

Christine Maggiore

#Issues Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Guessing Quotes

“I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.”
“I think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face.”

Source : "Dodgeball - Vince Vaughn Q&A". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.
“I find that the critics of voluntary service are all too often those who are prepared to accept such services when they require them but deride them with cynicism and scepticism when they see others helping and being helped.”
“I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or dramas that included a lot of funny stuff. But in my TV work, those aren't the roles that I've been offered.”
“Well, Pa, a woman can change better than a man. A man lives, sort of, well, in jerks. A baby's born or somebody dies and that's a jerk. He gets a farm or loses it and that's a jerk. With a woman, it's all in one flow, like a stream. Little eddies and waterfalls, but the river, it goes right on. A woman looks at it that way.”
“What, after all, is the purpose of a womanâ€™s life? The purpose of a womanâ€™s life is just the same as the purpose of a manâ€™s life: that she may make the best possible contribution to the generation in which she is living.”
“They don't own me. If I'm gonna die, I wanna still be me.”
“Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless, but at least sheep never vote for the butcher who kills them or the people who devour them. More beastly than any beast, more sheepish than any sheep, the voter names his own executioner and chooses his own devourer, and for this precious 'right' a revolution was fought.”

Source : "Voters Strike". Short story by Octave Mirbeau, 1888.

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