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“Women are less corruptible. There's plenty of research to show that they are less inclined to take bribes and they are more trustworthy. And so it's all the more important to have them in large percentages.”
Source : Source: www.pbs.org
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“I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.”
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“As soon as someone I don’t respect tells me I can’t do something, it just makes me want to do it even more.”
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“O, beautiful and grand, My own, my native land! Of thee I boast: Great empire of the west, The dearest and the best, Made up of all the rest, I love thee most.”
Source : Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”
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“But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.”
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“I contend that the time has come to develop what I call "integrated spiritual masters." These are individuals that have a full-on experience of all levels of life spiritually, intellectually, emotionally, and yes... physically. In other words they can soar into the realms of the mystic and yet still keep their feet in the sand.”
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“Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.”
Source : Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage
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“Inactivity is the beginning of all vice.”
