"Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy,"

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Source : "Democracy's Edge: Choosing to Save Our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life". Book by Frances Moore Lappé, 2005.

Frances Moore LappÃ©

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“My brother was diagnosed with autism, so it's something that hits close to home. And as I got older - especially when I started modeling and being in the city - I wanted to do help. I became involved with Autism Speaks.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I was very emotional. I cried when I got into the locker room. I didnâ€™t want to show that stuff on the sideline.”

Source : "Dez Bryant Walks Off Field After Tony Romo’s Last Interception, Tweets Explanation" by Michael Klopman, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2013.
“You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.”
“If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according to the judgment of their contemporaries, how different their reputations would be from what posterity has made them!”
“Right now I own shares of companies in 28 countries.”
“We are a landscape of all we have seen.”
“I was from North Carolina, so as a youngster all of my mind games about golf were always, If I make this I win The Masters, if I hole this par putt I win The Masters. So it was a great thrill to play there.”
“... one of the main functions of an analogy or model is to suggest extensions of the theory by considering extensions of the analogy, since more is known about the analogy than is known about the subject matter of the theory itself ... A collection of observable concepts in a purely formal hypothesis suggesting no analogy with anything would consequently not suggest either any directions for its own development.”

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