"Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us."

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Barbara Jordan

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“My hope is that people begin to understand what the fiscal realities are - how economic virtue differs from political virtue - and develop a realization of their individual economic philosophy in comparison to their perceived political ideology.”
“Socialist ideology is making France go to pot, and the French language with it.”
“Who has forbidden women to engage in private and individual studies? Have they not a rational soul as men do?...I have this inclination to study and if it is evil I am not the one who formed me thus - I was born with it and with it I shall die.”
“We know the speaker has received adequate empathy when a. we sense a release of tension, or b. the flow of words comes to a halt.”
“There's a resistance for people to talk about things that make them feel guilty. When natural disasters happen, it's easier not to feel guilty about it.”
“The whole notion of sanity may be an attempt to medicalize morality - to speak of the good in the language of health: to make us more accurate, more scientific in our wanting - but by the same token it becomes a form of moral blackmail. It is as if to say: if these are not valued - if these forms of wanting and feeling and speaking and doing - are not cultivated and encouraged and rewarded in the child, then the child will be mad.”

Source : Adam Phillips (2005). “Going sane”, Egully.com
“The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.”
“You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.”

Source : Stephen Chbosky (1999). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, MTV Books

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