"I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes."

-- Bette Midler

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“I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.”
“We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press...It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it.”

Source : Fisher Ames (1835). “The influences of democracy on liberty, property and the happiness of society, considered, by an American [F. Ames], to which is prefixed, an introduction by H. Ewbank”, p.197
“I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.”
“Listen, I didn't know how to make coffee when I came to the United States. Because in Colombia the maids do it.”
“Knowing something for oneself or for communication to an expert colleague is not the same as knowing it for explanation to a student.”
“If we apply the term revolution to what happened in North America between 1776 and 1829, it has a special meaning. Normally, the word describes the process by which man transforms himself from one kind of man, living in one kind of society, with one way of looking at the world, into another kind of man, another society, another conception of life.... The American case is different: it is not a question of the Old Man transforming himself into the New, but of the New Man becoming alive to the fact that he is new, that he has been transformed already without his having realized it.”
“It comes down to this: If not you, then who?”
“I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.”

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