"Our right to disagree is precious but fragile. The best way to protect and preserve it is to let the other side speak without demonizing them or destroying their right to be heard. Such civil exchanges are the heart beat of democracy - essential to keeping it alive."

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Source : "Words Have Consequences" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 10, 2011.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#Heart Quotes #Democracy Quotes #Alive Quotes

“I've always been slightly embittered about computers because it was the only subject I failed at school.”

Source : "Matt Frewer Takes Eureka to the Max". Interview with Matt Webb Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. August 29, 2006.
“Music is a whole oasis in my head. The creation process is so personal and fulfilling.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“His eyes held hers. â€œBecause I knew, ten seconds after walking into this office and meeting you, that we had this in the bag.”
“Don't write poems to make girls like you, because it will not make them like you but it will give them something to quote back at you later in life.”

Source : Source: www.stephbowe.com
“I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.”
“Like everyone is either, "I grew up with it," or "I loved it," or loved them now. And when you watch The Muppet Movie now, it is so current. It's like The Simpsons before The Simpsons. It's not as cynical as The Simpsons would be but it's self-aware and there are a billion jokes, it breaks the fourth wall every five minutes, it's astounding, it's awesome. It's very exciting to be a part of that.”
“The Community Relations Service would be another pro-civil rights Federal agency attempting to make people do what the policy of the Federal Government demanded that they do. Moreover, in title II of the bill, this Service is made an agent of the court without due thought as to the effect on legal and judicial procedures.”
“To be able to dispense with good things is tantamount to possessing them.”

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