"It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote."

-- Todd Akin

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“Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.”
“I actually think love changes everything. I think it's the only thing worth having.”

Source : "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.
“Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage.”

Source : Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.13, Open Road Media
“The abused child goes on living within those who have survived such torture, a torture that ended with total repression. They live with the darkness of fear, oppression, and threats. When all its attempts to move the adult to heed its story have failed, it resorts to the language of symptoms to make itself heard. Enter addiction, psychosis, criminality.”
“My government currently runs things only because the people 'allow' them to run things. It is my responsibility that I do everything I can to keep tabs on my government, keep them honest and make sure that they always act for the good of the people. They must be reminded that they hold no power over the people that the people do not wish for them to hold. If the government begins working in a way that the people don't agree with, they must be made to know that we will rip it to its very foundations and replace it with something that does.”
“My dad used to say, 'You have to become part of the machine to beat the machine,' and there's some validity in it. But honestly, even when I'm inside the machine, you still see me. I stick out a little bit.”
“It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.”
“So say it loud and let it ring We are all a part of everything The future, present and the past Fly on proud bird You're free at last”

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