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“Great Spirit-I want no blood upon my land to stain the grass. I want it all clear and pure, and I wish it so, that all who go through among my people may find it peaceful when they come, and leave peacefully when they go.”
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“Why is ***** against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn’t the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural?”
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“Prisoners do different things. Some write, some read. Some engage in athletic events and working out and some do all of that. Some get involved in the religious groups that they're part of. Some get involved in hobbies that are permitted in prison. There are plenty of ways to stay busy. You're never going to survive in prison unless you start getting busy.”
Source : "Jack Abramoff's prison advice for Bob McDonnell". Interview with Jeremy Diamond, www.cnn.com. January 6, 2015. 
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“No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.”
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“A mother knows what her child's gone through, even if she didn't see it herself.”
Source : Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Willem Samuels (2002). “The girl from the coast: a novel”, Hyperion Books
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“If we are to save humanity and the planet from the worst mass extinction of all time, worse even than that at the end of the Permian, we must stop at two degrees.”
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“Let me lay my cards on the table. If I were to give an award for the single best idea anyone ever had, I'd give it to Darwin, ahead of even Newton or Einstein and everyone else. In a single stroke, the idea of evolution by natural selection unifies the realm of life, meaning and purpose with the realm of space and time, cause and effect, mechanism and physical law. It is not just a wonderful idea. It is a dangerous idea.”
Source : "Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life". Book by Daniel Dennett, 1995.
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“Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.”
