"One can argue that in the context of history a few years do not matter. But we live in an age in which every moment counts heavily and the price of delay is human lives."

-- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

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“I'm more likely to not invite someone back for not talking. If someone talks a lot, I can usually shut them up and control them. But with people who don't talk, if they don't really want to talk, they probably shouldn't be on this show, and that's fine. They're talented people with things to say, but sometimes people say what they have to say through other means than arguing.”
“We come crawling through these cracks, orphans, lobotomies; if you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything. Whole rotten world come down and break. Let me spread my legs.”

Source : Kathy Acker (1996). “Pussy, King of the Pirates”, Acker, Kathy
“It feels like being a woman now gives you a slight advantage.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“The basic change in the landscape since my salad days started with the defensive rediscovery of history and politics by all the theoretically-oriented academics in the late seventies and eighties.”
“I'm flattered if any movie role and my name are mentioned in the same sentence, because there haven't been a ton of them.”
“The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman. To most of us, the manipulative invoking of religion to advance a politician or a party is frightening and divisive. The American people will tolerate religious leaders taking positions for or against candidates.”
“Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.”
“The Norwegian response to violence is more democracy, more openness and greater political participation,”

Source : "Norway will not be intimidated by terror attacks, vows prime minister" by Helen Pidd and James Meikle, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2011.

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