"It is not ***** or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts."

-- Shirley Chisholm

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“Th direct elimination of elimination of poverty should be the objective of all development aid. Development should be viewed as a human rights issue, not as a question of simply increasing the gross national product (GNP).”
“Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.”

Source : Electromagnetic Theory Chapter I, Introduction (p. 12)
“The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, "is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life.”
“This loneliness won't leave me alone.”

Source : Song: Dock Of The Bay, Album: Dreams To Remember: The Otis Redding Anthology
“When father was younger than me he came to New York to be in musicals and was in a number of them. But he, at that time in his life, didn't feel he could fully commit to a creative life - he had this voice in the back of his head that said, "I need to make money." So that propelled him to open up an ice cream parlor, which then spawned into a number of different food businesses and took over his life for 20 years.”
“No man is so great as mankind.”
“We Shan't Save All We Would Like To, But We Shall Save A Great Deal More Than If We Had Never Tried.”
“When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgement have simply disappeared from the face of the earth. Everyone's thought is forensic, everyone is simply putting a "case" with deliberate suppression of his opponent's point of view, and, what is more, with complete insensitiveness to any sufferings except those of himself and his friends.”

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