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#Wise Quotes #Humans Quotes

“At daybreak Morn shall come to meIn raiment of the white winds spun.”

Source : Madison Julius Cawein, “Quiet”
“This year women learned that if we aren't at the table, we're on the menu.”

Source : Cecile Richards' Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.
“You shouldn't get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet they do nothing for the community. That makes me furious.”
“No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year.”
“Israel, the Israelis, and the rest of the world have been brainwashed. They don't think of pre-1948, they have no idea Palestinians were in Israel, who we were before '48. As if we were born in 1948 according to them. They have no notion that we had a country, houses, rebelled against the Ottomans and the British. They think history in that region started in that moment.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle.”
“If scientists don't play God, who will?”

Source : "Generosity by Richard Powers" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2010.
“In the Sixties, there was a big resistance to the Vietnam War. People began reinterpreting all American history as a series of misadventures and crimes and oppressions visited upon the innocent, the poor, the defenseless, the minorities, and so on. This created a new narrative in America. Let's call it, "America the inexcusable." And this narrative has been drummed into the minds of our young people. A whole generation of Americans has been taught that theirs is a bad country. And it's then very difficult for them to figure out how one can one be a good citizen in a bad country.”

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