"We are dealing with the question of the 11 million people paying their taxes, having a path to legalization and, then, ultimately, to citizenship - tough issues, but we are coming together and I think we can do it."

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Dick Durbin

#Thinking Quotes #Issues Quotes #People Quotes

“It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.”
“But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family. I forgot the songs they sung - and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue; I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now - yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.”
“Pragmatism , in trying to turn experimental physics into a prototype of all science and to model all spheres of intellectual life after the techniques of the laboratory, is the counterpart of modern industrialism, for which the factory is the prototype of human existence, and which models all branches of culture after production on the conveyor belt.”

Source : Max Horkheimer (2004). “EPZ Eclipse of Reason”, p.35, A&C Black
“Some of my greatest role models are the young children who ask the right questions - who will sit down and share their concerns. They're not just learning from me - they're educating me. That's what drives me.”

Source : "The Pioneer". Interview with Erik Kancler, www.motherjones.com. April 25, 2005.
“The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.”
“I wonder who would lead us if none of us would vote.”

Source : Song: The Great American Novel, Album: Only Visiting This Planet
“The study of mathematics is the indispensable basis for all intellectual and spiritual progress.”

Source : "The Sacred in Music". Book by Albert L. Blackwell, 1999.
“The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what's given as the beginning of its need to find or devise something else.”

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