"People know more about baseball players contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our childrens lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, Do you want to bring a child into this world? Thats pretty dire."

-- Jackson Browne

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“A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.”
“I thank heaven for a man like Adolf Hitler, who built a front line of defense against the anti-Christ of Communism.”

Source : New York World-Telegram 26 Aug. 1936
“Just as none of us is outside or beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle over geography. That struggle is complex and interesting because it is not only about soldiers and cannons but also about ideas, about forms, about images and imaginings.”

Source : Silvia Nagy, Edward W. Said (2006). “Paradoxical Citizenship: Edward Said”, p.90, Lexington Books
“You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.”
“I love melodrama. I love the simple fact. When you read Euripides he's a page turner. It's like reading a Mexican comic book romance.”
“The worlds of thought and action overlap. What you think has a way of becoming true.”

Source : Roger Von Oech (2001). “Whack on the Side of the Head”, Mjf Books
“I have nine children... and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the winter, and when one bird is off the nest, the other has to go on.”
“All that separates, whether of race, class, creed, or sex, is inhuman, and must be overcome.”

Source : "Women, Politics, And Power : A Global Perspective" by Melanie M. Hughes, (p. 47), 2007.

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