"People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience."

-- Carol Moseley Braun

#Government Quotes #Common Sense Quotes #People Quotes

“Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.”
“In education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much.”
“Because satan hates us, he's determined to rob us of the joy we'd have if we believed what God tells us about the magnificent world to come.”
“The purpose of life for man is growth, just as the purpose of life for trees and plants is growth. Trees and plants grow automatically and along fixed lines; man can grow as he will. Trees and plants can only develop certain possibilities and characteristics; man can develop any power which is or has been shown by any person anywhere. Nothing that is possible in spirit is impossible in flesh and blood. Nothing that man can think is impossible. Nothing that man can imagine is impossible of realization.”
“Though One Brahman is the Cause of the Many. ... Behold but One in all things it is the second that leads you astray.”
“I was thrilled when a designer shop assistant said I was a size smaller than Madonna!”
“The Democratic Party is uniquely virulently racist and pro-slavery to a degree unseen anywhere in the English-speaking world!”
“I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce scenes symbolized by the very slow washing of dishes.”

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