"There is not an issue that a woman cannot bring a perspective to."

-- Eddie Bernice Johnson

#Issues Quotes #Perspective Quotes

“In every endeavour, people make the difference, and just one person has the power to make a profound difference in the lives of so many people.”
“I went to my 30th high school reunion, and I could tell who was gay and who was straight because the gay people were like, 'Sarah, you've been doing so much,' and the straight people were like, 'So, Sarah, what have you been doing?”
“The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.”
“THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY WAS DUE PRIMARILY TO A NEW BURST OF RELIGIOUS LIFE EMANATING FROM THE CHRISTIAN IMPULSE. . . . NEVER IN ANY CORRESPONDING LENGTH OF TIME HAD THE CHRISTIAN IMPULSE GIVEN RISE TO SO MANY NEW MOVEMENTS. NEVER HAD IT HAD QUITE SO GREAT AN EFFECT UPON WESTERN EUROPEAN PEOPLES. IT WAS FROM THIS ABOUNDING VIGOR THAT THERE ISSUED THE MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE WHICH DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SO AUGMENTED THE NUMERICAL STRENGTH AND THE INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIANITY.”
“To me, an outlaw is a man that did things his own way, whether you liked him or not. I did things my own way.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Singing is such an excellent thing, that I wish all people would sing.”
“We know little of the consequences of the geoengineering process, such as spraying particles into the atmosphere that shade the planet from the sun's rays and could decrease its temperature. But this process is how dinosaurs disappeared from the Earth about 60 million years ago, by particles spewed by a volcano or a giant meteorite impact, and our species could follow suit.”

Source : "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.
“Knicks and dull edges are abominations, so use knives and hatchets for nothing but they were made for.”

Source : Horace Kephart (1922). “Camping”

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