"Affirmative action is the most important modern anti-discrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable effect on discrimination. No one who knows anything about the subject would say it hasn't worked. It has certainly done something, or else it wouldn't have provoked so much opposition."

-- Eleanor Holmes Norton

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“I certainly incorporate facts into my fiction. I take the basic facts from the life of my subject and I pick and choose what to use to construct a really interesting novel. I don't let facts get in the way of my imagination and my exploration of the subject's emotions and relationships.”
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

Source : J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“When man has mastered money he shall have mastered not only his economic problem of prosperity but also his political problem, for he will see that money has no place in state functions, and, the money power being entirely in his own hands, he will easily master the state and clearly define its services. Thus money must be seen as the means of mastery of all economic and political problems. Until we have mastered money we shall not master any of our problems. Not money, but a false money system, is the root of all evil.”
“Many Muslim countries are closed to missionaries, a policy Christians see as a denial of religious liberty.”

Source : "Christians and Muslims". "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. September 19, 2008.
“We intend to try and vote the Chinaman out, to frighten him out, and if this won't do, to kill him out.”

Source : "'Glenn Beck:' Shocking History of Unions in America". "Glenn Beck", www.foxnews.com. June 23, 2010.
“Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.”
“Off the coast and I'm headed nowhere”

Source : Song: Brick
“I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.”

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