"Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable."

-- Barbara Jordan

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“The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.”
“Donald Trump, I guess one idea here if he`s flip flopping, has he bought himself cover with his base by all the inflammatory thing he`s said over the last year? But the flip side is, all of those inflammatory things, the voters he`s trying to reach by flip flopping, are they tuned out to him because of that?”
“I wish that somehow, some way we could learn to live together in this country.”
“The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document; it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age.”
“To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.”
“Having it all is easy if youre willing to work for it”

Source : FaceBook post by Adrienne Maloof from Sep 13, 2011
“Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the qualifications for adaptation, the ability to accept the inevitable and conform to the unavoidable, to harmonize with existing or changing conditions.”

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