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“Ronald Reagan was an actor. Not at all a factor, Just an employee of the country's real masters. Just like the Bushes, Clinton and Obama, Just another talkin' head tellin' lies on teleprompters. If you don't believe the theory, then argue with this logic: Why did Reagan and Obama both go after Gaddafi? We invaded sovereign soil, goin' after oil Takin' countries as a hobby paid for by the oil lobby, Same as Iraq and Afghanistan. And Ahmadinejad sayin' they comin' for Iran...”
Source : "Killer Mike: R.A.P. Music" by Evan Rytlewski, www.avclub.com. May 15, 2012.
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“Compassion is not pity ... compassion never considers an object as weak or inferior. Compassion, one might say, works from a strength born of awareness of shared weakness, and not from someone else's weakness. And from the awareness of the mutuality of us all. Thus to put down another as in pity is to put down oneself.”
Source : Matthew Fox (1999). “A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Awareness with Social Justice”, p.20, Simon and Schuster
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“I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“[Pope Francis] lashed out against what he called malevolent resistance to his reforms.”
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“Go, do not be afraid and serve”
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“Never believe anyone who tells you that you don't deserve what you want.”
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“I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.”
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“L.A. as a geographical entity is very much a mixture of surf, desert, and the mountains, earthquakes and urban sprawl. Within an hour of driving, you can be out into the desert. I like that very much about living on the edge of a continent, conceptually is an interesting place to be. You're at this kind of juncture of a tectonic plate. The idea that the Pacific Ocean is right behind us, on a macro scale, is an interesting place to be.”