"Certainly Social Security needs to be reformed."

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Source : "State of the Union" with Candy Crowley, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 27, 2011.

Kent Conrad

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“With all due respect for the wondrous ways people have invented to amuse themselves and one another on paved surfaces, I find that this exodus from the land makes me unspeakably sad. I think of the children who will never know, intuitively, that a flower is a plant's way of making love, or what silence sounds like, or that trees breathe out what we breathe in.”

Source : Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.48, Faber & Faber
“All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.”
“Either there is a God or there isn't. Both possibilities are frightening.”
“You need to be as clean of a slate as you can be, as an actor. You have to try to be open to every experience.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I was a young lad when I was growing up.”
“The most compelling insight of that day was that this awesome recall had been brought about by a fraction of a gram of a white solid, but that in no way whatsoever could it be argued that these memories had been contained within the white solid. Everything I had recognized came from the depths of my memory and my psyche. I understood that our entire universe is contained in the mind and the spirit. We may choose not to find access to it, we may even deny its existence, but it is indeed there inside us, and there are chemicals that can catalyze its availability.”
“A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.”
“People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition. Such inequality is far from being disadvantageous either to individuals or to the community.”

Source : Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.149, TAN Books

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