"When you sacrifice, you force others to sacrifice. It's an extremely powerful weapon."

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Source : Cesar Chavez, Richard Jay Jensen, John C. Hammerback (2002). “The Words of César Chávez”, p.71, Texas A&M University Press

Cesar Chavez

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“I think any musical has so many moving parts and the challenge is unifying all the moving parts in particular because you have the camera and now it's all about adaptation and what works in one medium doesn't necessarily work in another so the challenge is to stay as true as you can to the material and yet not be afraid to step out of it and add elements to make it satisfying cinematically.”

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“My belief, through my experiences, is that the world in which we live is but an illusionary world, a world that one day we will leave behind as we travel on toward our destiny and toward reality.”
“You know those drugstore kits that tell you when you're pregnant? They should have one that tells you when you're sane.”
“A society that is in its higher circles and middle levels widely believed to be a network of smart rackets does not produce men with an inner moral sense; a society that is merely expedient does not produce men of conscience. A society that narrows the meaning of 'success' to the big money and in its terms condemns failure as the chief vice, raising money to the plane of absolute value, will produce the sharp operator and the shady deal. Blessed are the cynical, for only they have what it takes to succeed.”
“People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There's a thing in psychology where they think if it's popular, it can't be serious.”
“I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges.”

Source : "Upton readies for super committee" by Darren Samuelsohn, www.politico.com. August 10, 2011.
“As president of the United States, my top priority will be to keep America safe. We're going to go after the terrorist networks. We're going to go after Osama bin Laden. We are not going to live in fear in this country.”
“The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if they broke, you only lost one. I wished my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.”

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