"In the history of this country [USA], the reason we have never developed a social democratic base, the way they have in Europe - we're the only Western country without some kind of universal health care. There's a reason, and it is because corporate interests have divided the American people by race and ethnicity, the Irish from the blacks, the Germans from the German Jews."

-- Joan Walsh Anglund

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“My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!”
“I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.”
“How marvellous it would be if, at the end of the day, each of us could say: today I have performed an act of charity towards others!”
“When persons are present to one another they can function not merely as physical instruments but also as communicative ones. This possibility, no less than the physical one, is fateful for everyone concerned and in every society appears to come under strict normative regulation, giving rise to a kind of communication traffic order...”

Source : Erving Goffman (2008). “Behavior in Public Places”, p.23, Simon and Schuster
“Maybe it has something to do with being a reporter for a long time that I don't look to newspapers and television and so forth for inspiration most of the time.”
“You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ.”
“America doesn't have the moral right to tell other people what to do. To say the whole world has to fall into line is you-know-what. I hope more people will rise up.”
“Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.”

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